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The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock.

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

1. #LIMERICK: Gardaí are appealing for information after a man in his 30s was found dead in his car by a passerby.

2. #ST PATRICK’S DAY: Caretaker Taoiseach Enda Kenny will only spend one day in the United States next week as he attempts to form a government. Kenny had been due to spend two days in Washington DC.

3. #LUAS: Transdev, the company which operates the Luas, has said a special bus service will operate on St Patrick’s Day as strike action means there will be no tram services.

4. #JONATAHN DOWDALL: The former Sinn Féin councillor has said gardaí raiding his family home was “traumatising”.

5. #DUBLIN: Gardaí have seized cash, jewellery, GPS trackers and documentation in a number of raids across the city targeting the Kinahan gang.

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