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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. #TIPPERARY: Gardaí are investigating the death of a seven-month-old baby girl  who was found unresponsive in a car in Dundrum village.

2. #SKERRIES: A search for a missing fisherman is underway after a trawler sank off the coast of Co. Dublin earlier today.

3. #MURDER: Dublin man Eric Locke has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a single mother-of-one Sonia Blount.

4. #CAIRO: Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Egyptian Christians south of the capital today, killing at least 20 people.

5. #FIDGET SPINNERS: Irish parents are being warned about potentially dangerous fidget spinners and after 200,000 that arrived from overseas were impounded.

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