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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #REDRESS Survivors’ groups gathered outside Leinster House today to call for the Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme to be changed to better meet the needs of survivors. 

2. #COVID-19 The Cabinet has not yet formally decided on subsidising antigen tests to make them more affordable for wider use. 

3. #DATA CENTRES Ireland’s energy regulator has decided against implementing a moratorium on new data centres connecting to the national grid.

4. #STORMONT Workers in Northern Ireland are to be told to work from home ‘where possible’ under new coronavirus measures agreed by ministers today.

5. #BULGARIA At least 46 people have died after a bus caught fire near the capital of Bulgaria early this morning, including 12 children.

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