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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #ARRESTED: A woman in her 40s has been arrested in relation to the fatal stabbing of a three-year-old boy in Kimmage on Monday.

2. #STILL MISSING: Gardaí have made a renewed appeal for missing woman Linda Christian who has been missing from Blanchardstown for three weeks.

3. #HEATED EXCHANGES: Paul Murphy has hit out at Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for likening the Jobstown water protest to a scene from Lord of the Flies.

4. #OLYMPIC HOPEFULS: Sports Minister Shane Ross has said Ireland should think about bidding for future Olympic Games.

5. #BREAKING POINT: A trillion-tonne iceberg has snapped off west Antarctica as environmental activists claim climate change has sped up the process.

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