The 5 at 5: Friday

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. #STRAIT OF HORMUZ: Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz is “completely open” to commercial shipping and will remain so during the current ceasefire with the United States, which expires next wednesday.

2. #RIP: Moya Brennan, the Clannad co-founder, was remembered as the “First Lady of Celtic Music” at her funeral in the Donegal Gaeltacht today.

3. #CENSUS: The 1926 Census records are due to be released tomorrow, making available for the first time the personal information related to the almost 3m people living in Ireland on the night of 18 April, 1926.

4. #DEBUNKED: Images appearing to show gardaí being refused service at cafés and restaurants during the recent fuel price protests are AI-generated and the stories accompaying them are not supported by evidence.

5. #RIP: The family of Scarlett Faulkner, who died in hospital three weeks after an alleged roadside attack, pledged at her funeral today that she would get justice.