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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. #WEATHER WARNING: A Status Orange rain warning has been issued for Wicklow and Waterford, with nine other counties to be placed under a Status Yellow warning at the same time.

2. #GRACE’S LAW: The Government is set to implement a total ban on the use of scramblers in public places. Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the law will be named after Grace Lynch.

3. #HIGH COURT: Two members of a disciplinary body deciding on whether Enoch Burke was fairly dismissed from Wilson’s Hospital School have resigned, the High Court heard.

4. #EPSTEIN FILES: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein asked an exotic dancer for a threesome at the late paedophile’s Florida home, legal letters claim.

5. #NORWAY: The son of Norway’s future queen today admitted a life of excess, blaming it on an “extreme need for recognition”, but denied raping a woman at his parents’ royal estate in 2018.

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