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

EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five big news stories you need to know before you head out the door.

1. #MYSTERY: A human skull that is believed to have been in the ground for up to 70 years has been found in the back garden of a house in South County Dublin.

2. #SHORT GOODBYE: Outgoing British Prime Minister David Cameron took a pop at Labour for the party’s lack of progress in its own leadership contest, and told his fellow MPs he would “miss the roar of the crowd” at his last PM’s questions.

3. #HIGH COURT: Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins ‘self-harmed’ and had to be hospitalised after a Dáil committee hearing in 2014, the High Court heard today.

4. #LEPRECHAUN ECONOMICS: Experts aren’t impressed by Ireland’s new GDP figures, which suggest the economy grew by 26%.

5. #KILLING: The children of Jason Corbett, the Irishman killed in the US last year, told social workers that their father hit their step-mother, who is accused of his killing.

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