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

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

1. #TUAM: The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has discovered a significant number of human remains in what appears to be a decommissioned sewage chamber in Tuam, Co Galway.

2. #OFF: The all-out strike by Bus Éireann drivers planned to take place from Monday has been called off.

3. #SHATTER: Taoiseach Enda Kenny has rejected the assertions made by former cabinet and party colleague Alan Shatter, who today said Kenny put him under pressure to resign and that the Fine Gael leader has a “casual relationship with the truth”.

4. #NORTHERN IRELAND: Vote counting in Northern Ireland’s general election is underway.

5. #MEDICAL CANNABIS: Vera Twomey has made it to Kilkenny in her walk from Cork to the Dáil in protest against decisions to restrict her daughter Ava, who has a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome, from accessing cannabis-based medication.

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