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

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

1. #DENTIST: The HSE has been forced to close a Co Clare dental clinic after drain cleaning fluid was apparently mixed with water instead of dental product.

2. #BANNED: The Ross O’Carroll-Kelly author Paul Howard was barred from an interview on Spin 1038 after Communicorp has banned Irish Times journalists from appearing on any of their five radio stations.

3. #BUDGET: Fianna Fáil’s finance spokesperson Michael McGrath has warned that tax cuts will be “modest” while social welfare increases “won’t be miserly” in this year’s Budget.

4. #TICKET TOUTS: Minutes after Kendrick Lamar’s Dublin concert sold out at 9am this morning, tickets went on sale for twice the price on Ticketmaster’s sister site Seatwave.

5. #JAPAN: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Japan today.

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