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GOOD EVENING

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. #DÁIL 33: The 33rd Dáil is meeting for the first time today. It will hold a vote on Taoiseach where no one is expected to be elected. Seán Ó Fearghaíl was reelected as Ceann Comhairle. Follow all the developments here.

2. #GERMANY: Police in Germany are probing the attacker’s far-right terror connections after nine people were killed in shootings in a Frankfurt suburb.

3. #BOMB SCARE: A suspect device was left outside the home of the uncle of Sinn Féin MP John Finucane. 

4. #MICROBEADS: Ireland has outlawed the sale, manufacture, import and export of products containing microplastics.

5. #WEATHER: Met Éireann has forecast that the weather will remain unsettled over the coming days with a risk of snow and flooding in some areas.

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