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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. #ANGLO: A jury has found former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm guilty on charges of conspiracy to defraud the public and of false accounting in 2008.

2. #TRIBUNAL: A retired senior garda has told the Disclosures Tribunal that he purposefully did not seek to engage with Maurice McCabe when he was investigating claims by the sergeant that fixed charge penalty notices were being cancelled.

3. #TRIAL: CCTV footage of the fatal shooting of Gareth Hutch as he was getting into his car outside Avondale House flats in Dublin over two years ago has been shown at the Special Criminal Court.

4. #EXAMS: Over 120,000 students began their Leaving and Junior Certificate exams today – with Leaving Cert students sitting the first of their two English papers.

5. #ABORTION: DUP MLA Jim Wells has come under criticism for comparing the UK’s abortion rate to the Nazi Holocaust.

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