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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1 #IAN BAILEY: The State will not appeal the High Court’s decision refusing to surrender Ian Bailey to the French authorities to serve a 25-year prison sentence imposed by a French court for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier 24 years ago.

2. #KANTURK: The community in Cork was left “numbed and stunned” by the deaths of a father and two sons yesterday. 

3. #COVID: There are now 354 people with Covid-19 in hospital and 38 in ICU, according to the Department of Health.

4. #INVESTIGATION: The body of a man in his 30s was discovered following a house fire in Tipperary town today.

5. #WAH-WAH WEE WAH: Kazakhstan has adopted Borat’s “very nice!” catchphrase in a bid to boost tourism during Covid-19. 

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