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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. #BACK ON: General election voting in Tipperary will happen on Saturday after officials reversed their decision to postpone the ballot because of the death of a candidate in the county this week.

2. #PAUL QUINN: A Sinn Féin MLA has apologised for comments he made in 2007 about an Armagh man who is believed to have been killed by dissidents in Monaghan.

3. #PROTEST: Thousands of childcare workers have marched in Dublin to call on the government to bring the sector into the public service.

4. #COURTS: A 43-year-old woman charged with the murder of her three children at their home in Dublin has been further remanded in custody until next month. 

5. #IOWA: Democrat Pete Buttigieg is leading the field as first results emerge in the chaotic Iowa caucuses, according to partial returns released last night.

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