The Big 6 - Thursday 19th November

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

The Children’s Minister has said there must be a zero-tolerance approach to image-based abuse. It’s after thousands of images of Irish women, including some underage girls, were leaked from a private forum.

Three shop stewards from Waterford, Dublin and Cork and Mandate’s General Secretary met virtually with Taoiseach Micheal Martin and his officials this morning in an effort to find a solution to the protracted Debenhams dispute. The workers have now been on strike for 224 days.

Partying in Templar’s Hall in Waterford city by students is continuing to cause problems for long-term residents of the estate. However some students say they are being unfairly targeted. On Deise Today this morning Damien Tiernan heard both sides of the story. Listen back here.

There have been no fatalities at University Hospital Waterford’s Intensive Care Unit since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Clinical Director of Intensive Care Medicine at University Hospital Waterford Mr Wahid Altaf said they’ve been treating patients with the disease since March and all have survived.

All mink on farms in Ireland are to be culled over the next few weeks due to concerns surrounding a mutated strain of Covid-19. There are about 100,000 mink spread across three farms in Laois, Donegal and Kerry.

The Playstation 5 went on sale in Ireland today and crashed websites across the country. The console is several times more powerful than its predecessor and is able to handle higher-quality graphics. It was first released in the US last week and has so far received positive reviews from critics. Harvey Norman in Ireland and GAME, Tesco and John Lewis in the UK reported issues with their websites following huge demand earlier today.