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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five big news stories you need to know.

1. #PALMERSTOWN: A 25-year-old man has died after an assault at a Dublin house in the early hours of this morning.

2. #FATAL: A man in his 60s has died following a road crash in Laois this afternoon.

3. #FUNDING: Tusla has defended its decision to withdraw funding from the Rape Crisis Network.

4. #EXPLOSION: Eighteen people have been injured after a car ploughed into a café in a remote Australian town.

5. #DEADLINE: Joe Duffy’s phonelines went down today, so he just played The Corrs instead.