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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 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. #CONSOLE: Suicide charity Console is to be wound down following revelations that its founders spent donated money on personal expenses.

2. #DISGRACE: Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has hit out at the people who ordered the shooting of cattle by army marksmen, calling them a “disgrace”.

3. #TRIAL: It’s been announced that prominent Republican Ivor Bell will stand trial over his alleged involvement in the murder of Jean McConville more than 40 years ago.

4. #DEFEATED: Mick Wallace’s fatal foetal abnormality bill was defeated in the Dáil this afternoon by 95 to 45.

5.  #ACCUSED:  The government has been accused of facilitating wholesale tax avoidance by Social Democrats TD Stephen Donnelly.

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