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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #ARLENE FOSTER: The DUP leader is to step down as head of her party at the end of May and as Northern Ireland’s First Minister at the end of June. 

2. #RE-OPENING: The Government is likely to scrap the €9 meal this summer as Cabinet meets with NPHET ahead of an announcement tomorrow. 

3. #CORK: The family of Conor King has laid their son to rest on what would have been his 23rd birthday after he passed away following a fall in to a blow hole from cliffs near Garrettstown beach in West Cork over the weekend.

4. #UNITED KINGDOM: Boris Johnson has denied saying that he would rather see “bodies pile high” than implement another lockdown in October.

5. #VACCINES: Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the largest Pfizer vaccine delivery to Ireland of 191,800 doses arrived today.

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