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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. #THE GATE: The Gate Theatre has appointed an independent expert to examine the allegations against its former director Michael Colgan.

2. #COURTS: A teenager killed in a car crash wasn’t wearing her seatbelt because she had dropped her phone, a court has heard.

3. #DANIEL DAY: The new extended Luas will open to the public in four weeks.

4. #THANK GOD YOU’RE HERE: A man caught with bullets in a sock told gardaí he was sweating because he had been masturbating.

5. #TRACKER MADNESS: Bank of Ireland has confirmed that an additional 6,000 customers were overcharged in the tracker scandal.

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