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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head home for the day.

1. #QUESTION TIME: The Taoiseach says the government is ‘standing by Lansdowne Road’ despite some unions and opposition parties declaring that it’s dead.

2. #CRIMINAL COURT: A man has been given a suspended sentence for breaking a stranger’s nose in Copper Face Jacks nightclub because he thought he had taken his change.

3. #BOKO HARAM: Children are disappearing and starving to death in northeastern Nigeria

4. #BRRR: Temperatures are set to hit freezing with wintry showers forecast for the week.

5. #COFFEE LOVERS REJOICE: Irish mathematicians are working hard to make the perfect cup of coffee.

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