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

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

1. #HPV VACCINE: Junior minister Finian McGrath has been in the wars today over a previous adversarial stance he took towards the Gardasil vaccine.

2. #DOOMSDAY: South Korea now believes that its neighbours to the North have the capability of fitting a nuclear weapon onto a missile.

3. #ANOTHER MOUTH TO FEED: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced they are expecting their child.

4. #DOBBO THERE: Bryan Dobson is to move from presenting RTÉ’s Six One News on TV to a role hosting the broadcaster’s flagship morning news radio show Morning Ireland.

5. #TAX CUTS: Fianna Fáil has defended its plan to introduce tax cuts for developers in order to stimulate construction.

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