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

EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you hit the road.

1. #MINUS SIX Yup, that’s how cold it’s going to get tonight. Deadly.

2. #LIFESAVER The HSE has said it will give a €430,000 drug to more patients suffering from a rare blood disorder, despite its ‘astronomical price‘.

3. #IT COULD BE YOU Typical – there’s a €10 million jackpot tonight and lottery machines have been on the blink all day.

4. #ON THE 19TH Rory McIlroy has settled his dispute with Horizon out of court. The golfer will reportedly pay in excess of $25 million to his old management firm.

5. #DISAPPEARED With just days to go until the opening match, 114 Six Nations tickets have gone missing, prompting warnings from the IRFU not to buy from touts.

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