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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. #RENT: Cabinet has signed off on proposals today to ensure that all renters won’t have to fork out multiples of their monthly rent amounts when signing a tenancy agreement.

2. #SICK LEAVE: Cabinet has also signed off on new legislation to give all workers the right to paid sick leave.

3. #COURT: A man has pleaded guilty to the 2017 murder of a pensioner in Limerick this morning, telling the Central Criminal Court that he is “sorry for what I did”.

4. #BREXIT: Talks aimed at ending the deadlock over the implementation of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement in Northern Ireland have ended without a breakthrough.

5. #DUBLIN: Dublin is one of the “biggest movers” down a ranking of the world’s most liveable cities.

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