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

EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you hit the road.

1. #PROTECTION: Hostages have been freed from a post office in a Paris suburb, with the hostage taker giving himself up. Meanwhile, police in Britain are stepping up security in Jewish communities following the attacks in Paris last week.

2. #COMMENTS: Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien says that he is not expecting an apology from a Labour backbencher after “ignorant and flippant” remarks made about O’Brien’s brother, who is homeless.

3. #INVESTIGATION: Gardaí are investigating an incident in which a six-year-old boy is thought to have been pricked with a syringe on a Dublin Bus.

4. #COSY: Last year was the hottest on record according to new data, Bloomberg reports

5. #WRAP UP: Met Eireann has issued a snow-ice warning for the country. Drivers are being warned to be wary of freezing fog this evening.

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