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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. #PAY DISPUTE: Health Minister Simon Harris has said patients should not be used as “pawns” in a pay dispute between hospital staff. Last night a number of HSE doctors didn’t show up for work due to the dispute.

2. #FLORIDA: Irma has become an “extremely dangerous” Category Five hurricane, as Florida declare a state of emergency as a result.

3. #GERRY ADAMS: Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is to announce his ‘future intentions’ as leader of the party at its Ard Fheis in November.

4. #LEUVEN: The families of two Irish women who died in an apartment fire in Belgium three years ago have said they were satisfied with today’s guilty verdict.

5. #GRENFELL: A woman was due to appear in court today charged with fraud after claiming her husband died in London’s Grenfell Tower fire.

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