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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. #KILKEE: The man charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of 25-year-old Karl Haugh told gardaí when charged that “nobody was meant to die”.

2. #CASH INJECTION: Ireland has emerged from the ‘lost decade’ that followed the property crash as domestic spending has returned to its previous 2007 peak.

3. #ASSAULT: Gardaí are investigating the alleged assault of a girl at a teenage disco in Carrick-on-Shannon.

4. #GANGLAND: Two people arrested in Dublin last night were allegedly stopped on their way to kill a former associate.

5. #NO NONSENSE: A former UK Brexit minister has said that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar may regret the tone he has taken towards the post-Brexit border.

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