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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. #INVESTIGATION: Gardaí have launched an investigation after a Fine Gael TD’s constituency office was daubed in anti-abortion graffiti overnight.

2. #WEATHER: Met Éireann has warned of potentially “severe” rain and winds this weekend with a status yellow weather advisory kicking in at midnight. 

3. #DRUGS: A surge in the supply of high-purity cocaine to Europe has meant an increase in violence and drug-related homicides, a new report has found. 

4. #BREXIT: British Prime Minister Theresa May has said that Britain and the EU will hold more talks in the coming days and denied reports that EU leaders refused a plea for reassurances on her Brexit plan.

5. #LIQUIDATION: The Jo’Burger restaurant group has announced that it has gone into liquidation leading to a number of its locations in Dublin closing down

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