The Big 6 - Tuesday 6th April

Every evening at 6 O Clock WLR brings you the 6 biggest stories of the day

Three major teachers' unions are set to consider industrial action tomorrow if the government doesn't prioritise their members for vaccination. In response the education minister Norma Foley said older people are 70 times more likely to die from Covid compared to those under 35.

A further nine deaths and 443 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Republic today. Of the new cases, 6 were in Waterford, meaning the 14-day incidence rate in Waterford is now 69.7 cases per 100,000 of the population – that’s a 40% decrease in the space of 7 days.

The Data Protection Commission is working to investigate a Facebook data leak affecting up to 1.5 million people in Ireland. Names, email addresses and phone numbers of one and a half million people in Ireland are now available online on a hacking website.

People across Waterford who are tired of illegal dumping and littering have taken matters into their own hands. Now groups and individuals all over the county, who are sick of the problem are going out gathering the rubbish on their own initiative.

A Daily Million player in Tramore, Co. Waterford has won €10,000 after matching 5 numbers and the bonus ball in yesterday afternoon’s Daily Million draw. The ticket holder was just one number shy of winning the €1 million top prize in the Bank Holiday Monday afternoon draw.

Jedward have hit out at Simon Cowell, calling the music mogul "nothing but a bad facelift". The twins who rose to fame on the X-Factor have posted a series of tweets criticising the lack of care for artists in the entertainment industry. They claim every contestant was a "slave to the show", and their "biggest regret" was not telling the judges to get lost.