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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. #DUBLIN BUS: Workers have reportedly voted overwhelmingly to strike ‘in sympathy’ with the Bus Éireann workers currently manning pickets nationwide.

2. #GARDAÍ: An examination is now being carried out into garda figures relating to homicide and incidents of domestic violence.

3. #REDRESS: The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors (CMABS) has said that it “utterly rejects” Minister Katherine Zappone’s refusal to offer redress to survivors of these homes.

4. #AN POST: The head of An Post said that 265 post offices are not near any “discernable population” as closures of branches loom.

5. #ASSAULT: Gardaí in Rathmines are investigating after a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted at Cathal Brugha army barracks in Dublin last night.

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