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The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.

1. #JAMEY CARNEY: Gardaí believe the chief suspect in the murder of US woman Jamey Carney in Killarney, Co Kerry fled the country in the hours after the killing before the victim’s body was discovered.

2. #MONEY MONEY MONEY: RTÉ is “not in the business of being cheap as chips”, the broadcaster’s director-general said, as he admitted some outsourced productions have increased in price.

3. #BONNIE TYLER: Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her hits Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, died aged 75. 

4. #SCORCHER: A status yellow high temperature warning has been issued for 12 counties as the weekend is set to be a scorcher

5. #MIDDLE EAST: New fighting erupted between the United States and Iran hours ahead of the burial of longtime supreme leader Ali Khamenei today, with Tehran targeting US allies in the region and American strikes hitting the perimeter of an Iranian nuclear power plant.

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