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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. #OFFICE RAIDS: Insurance Ireland says it is ‘cooperating fully’ with office raids regarding Ireland’s spiralling motor premium costs.

2. #WHEN LEO MET JUSTIN: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Irelandand worn a novelty pair of socks of his own to mark the occasion.

3. #MAURICE MCCABE: Allegations of child sexual abuse against the Garda whistleblower ‘came out of the blue’, the Charleton Tribunal has heard.

4. #CHARLIE GARD: Donald Trump has offered to help the parents of a terminally-ill child whose life support is to be switched off.

5. #NORTH KOREA: The hermit nation claims it has successfully tested the firing of an intercontinental missile for the first time.

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