EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.
1. #TRADE UNION Irish Defence Forces officers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of membership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), setting them on a potential collision course with Government.
2. #UKRAINE Russian Forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine today as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a “new phase of the war”.
3. #LATEST FIGURES Public Health officials have reported an additional 778 positive PCR cases of Covid-19 in Ireland in the past 24 hours.
4. #ONE IN FOUR Sexual abuse survivors have said that making a statement to gardaí can be re-traumatising, according to new research by One in Four.
5. #UN SECURITY Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, will address the UN Security Council following his visit to war-torn Ukraine.
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