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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. #THE EIGHTH: The Oireachtas committee, which is meeting today and tomorrow to hear medical evidence, has heard from a UK doctor that Irish women “used to go to Liverpool, now it’s London”.

2. #COURT: Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak has died in hospital after drinking poison at a UN tribunal in the Netherlands this morning.

3. #OVERTIME: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told the Dáil that the Garda overtime bill for December will be covered by next year’s budget, after it was revealed that this year’s’ budget had been spent.

4. #ÁRAS ATTRACTA: The Mayo care home for intellectually disabled adults may be facing closure after a Hiqa report found that a range of issues still had to be addressed.

5. #MAKE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN: US President Donald Trump has been criticised after he shared three anti-Muslim videos from a British far-right leader on his Twitter profile.

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