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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. #SUSPICIOUS DEATHS Gardaí are investigating the discovery of the bodies of what are believed to be a father and his young son in Dublin.

2. #AI IMAGES Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan has said X is not responsible for making child sexual abuse images, but that responsibility lies with the people who use the website to make the images.

3. #MERCOSUR The government has confirmed that Ireland will vote against the EU-Mercosur trade deal, just as EU countries get set to decide on what would be the world’s biggest free-trade zone.

4. #WEATHER The arrival of Storm Goretti won’t do anything to ease anyone’s January Blues here in Ireland – but the worst impact is to be felt in Britain and on the continent. 

5. #TUSLA A large group of senior social workers in Tusla wrote to the CEO to say that plans for a six-week timeline to put in place major organisation-wide reforms by 1 January could put children at “significant risk of harm”.

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