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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.

1. #WATER PROTESTS: Paul Murphy TD says Tánaiste Joan Burton should have expected the protests she faced in Tallaght on Saturday. A video of a woman being thrown into a bollard by gardaí has also gone viral.

2. #BOMB THREAT: Environment Minister Alan Kelly’s constituency office was the subject of a bomb threat this morning.

3. #WORK STATUS: Facebook is developing a new website designed specifically for users to chat and share documents and information with work colleagues.

4. #JOBBRIDGE: A woman has been awarded €5,000 for not being allowed to do JobBridge internship.

5. #BANDAID30:  The new band aid single was released last night and raised £1 million in the first ‘four or five minutes’.

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