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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. #BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE: An inquest into the shooting dead of ten people in west Belfast almost 50 years ago has found that the people killed were “entirely innocent”.

2. #ADOPTIONS: Proposed legislation to address right of access for adopted people to birth certs, early life and other information has been published by the Children’s Minister.

3. #HOLLES STREET: Protesters have gathered outside maternity hospitals calling for an end to Covid-19 restrictions preventing partners of pregnant women from attending scans and the early stages of childbirth.

4. #COVID CONTROVERSY: The Minister for Health has criticised a tweet sent by NPHET’s modelling expert Professor Philip Nolan comparing antigen tests to “snake oil”.

5. #RUSSIA: Nine people, most of them children, have been killed in a shooting at a high school in the south western Russian city of Kazan.

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