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GOOD EVENING

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

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

1. #SHOOTING: A man has been shot in the head and chest in Dublin’s south inner city.

2. #CONSOLE: Former CEO of suicide charity Console Paul Kelly has been asked to give back his People of the Year award.

3. #LOST PROPHETS: Welsh police face a misconduct action over the handling of the Ian Watkins (former Lost Prophets frontman) child abuse case.

4. #BACKSTABBER: Boris Johnson’s father is not one bit happy with Conservative leadership candidate Michael Gove.

5. #SERIAL: The subject of the first season of the podcast, Adnan Syed, is to get a retrial in his murder case.

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