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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. #CORK: A bus driver and a pedestrian died after a bus crashed in Monkstown, Co Cork this afternoon. 

2. #VACCINE DEAL: Ireland finally completed a deal to secure 700,000 Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccines from Romania.

3. #TRAVEL: The United States upgraded its warning against travel to a number of countries, including Ireland, after assessing the destinations as having very high levels of Covid-19.

4. #BELARUS: A missing Belarusian dissident was found hanged in a park in Ukraine. Police opened a murder probe and supporters accused the Belarusian government of killing the activist.

5. #OLYMPICS: Kellie Harrington guaranteed another Olympic medal for Ireland by beating Algeria’s Imane Khelif on a unanimous decision to secure bronze.

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