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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head home for the day.

1. #SEXUAL VIOLENCE: Rape Crisis Network Ireland released its annual report for 2015. Across 11 Rape Crisis Centres nationwide, over 13,000 calls were placed to access their services last year.

2. #APOLLO HOUSE: More than 30 homeless people slept in Apollo House in Dublin last night, following a weekend of extensive work to make the building fit to live in.

3. #ANGLO: Former finance director of Anglo Irish Bank Willie McAteer has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining an €8.4 million loan from the bank.

4. #DUBLIN: A construction worker in Dublin has been taken to hospital after a man set a digger on fire while the worker was operating the vehicle.

5. FRANCE: IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been found guilty of negligence by a French court over a massive payout to a tycoon when she was finance minister, but will not be fined or face prison.

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