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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.
1. #BARCELONA: Police in the Catalan region of Spain are attending an incident in Subirats, where a “suspicious person” wearing a suspected explosive belt has been shot dead. The person has since been named as Younes Abouyaaqoub – the main suspect in the attack.
2. #TURKU: Court documents today identified the suspect in last week’s Finnish stabbing attack as 18-year-old Abderrahman Mechkah.
3. #BIG PLANS: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced government plans to double Ireland’s global footprint by 2025.
4. #MARSEILLE: One person has died and another is seriously injured in the southern French city of Marseille after a van ploughed into people at two bus stops.
5. #ECLIPSE: The United States is about to experience a solar eclipse.
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