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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #DUP: The Democratic Unionist Party has signed a £1 billion deal to prop up Theresa May’s Conservative government in London.

2. #SEXUAL ABUSE: Tom Humphries, a prominent sports journalist and author, is to be sentenced next month for the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child.

3. #CRETE: A 15-year-old Irish girl has drowned in a swimming pool on the Greek island of Crete.

4. #TRAVEL BAN: The US Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration enforce most of its 90-day ban on travellers from six Muslim-majority countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it.

5. #JOBSTOWN: The jury in the Jobstown trial heard the judge’s closing remarks ahead of their deliberations in the case of six people accused of falsely imprisoning Joan Burton and her colleague on 15 November 2014.

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