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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. #MURDER: Gardaí have arrested a man in his 40s in relation to the murder of Nicola Collins.

2. #RENT PRESSURE: Housing charity Threshold says Rent Pressure Zone legislation is not being followed by some landlords and it’s having a negative effect on tenants looking for a place to live.

3. #ISCHIA: Rescuers on the Italian holiday island of Ischia pulled the last trapped child from rubble this morning after a magnitude-4.0 earthquake toppled buildings and left two people dead.

4. #CANCER LAWSUIT: A Californian jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay about €354 million to a woman who claimed she developed terminal ovarian cancer after using the company’s talc-based products.

5. #EAGLE HAS SPENT: The US Secret Service says it is facing a crunch in meeting overtime payments for agents, as it struggles with the cost of protecting President Donald Trump, his many homes and large family.

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