The 5 at 5: Friday

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

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

1. #LIVE: Donald Trump is being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America.

2. #TRUMP TIME: Inauguration protests and parties are taking place in Dublin, Galway and Cork.

3. #HIKES: Landlords have been rapped on the knuckles for threatening to hit tenants with new fees in the wake of rent controls being introduced.

4. #ABUSE: A report into institutional abuse at children’s homes in Northern Ireland has found that there was ‘widespread abuse’ at such facilities between 1922 and 1995.

5. #SHOTS FIRED: Ray D’Arcy has defended RTÉ’s Operation Transformation after a health expert slated the show.

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