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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 5 stories, 5 minutes, 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. #OMEATH: Tributes were paid to the garda shot dead in Louth yesterday, as further details emerged about the killing.

2. #CARRICKMINES: There were calls to increase funding for Traveller accommodation, after a halting site fire that killed 10 people on Saturday.

3. #KERRY: A 82-year-old priest – a retired lecturer and local historian - died in a house fire near Tralee.

4. #DUBLIN: Two men and a woman were detained by gardaí following the seizure of over €1.6 million worth of drugs.

5. #DICTATOR: Europe’s longest-serving leader, Alexander Lukashenko, won a fifth term as president of Belarus by a landslide, having said his nearest rival could not handle ruling a country because she is a woman.