The 5 at 5: Thursday

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. #HANTAVIRUS Plans are still being worked out for two Irish passengers aboard the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius, as international health authorities continue to monitor the outbreak linked to the cruise ship.

2. #BIKE SHED 2.0 A €127,000 bike shed at a Kerry hospital “went through proper guidelines”, the defence minister has said.

3. #COVALEN Workers at outsourcing tech firm Covalen have voted in favour of strike action after the company announced that the jobs of 720 workers on Meta projects are at risk of redundancy.

4. #TUSLA Almost 300 asylum seekers who claimed to be children were subsequently found to be adults in the last four years, according to Tusla.

5. #GAZA Doctors Without Borders has accused Israel of having deliberately restricted food and aid in Gaza, creating a “manufactured malnutrition crisis” with particularly devastating impacts on infants and pregnant and breastfeeding women.