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GOOD EVENING

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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head home for the day.

1. #WATERBOARDING: A court heard how a former Sinn Féin councillor “waterboarded and threatened to chop up man“.

2. #JOBSTOWN: The trial into the alleged false imprisonment of Joan Burton heard more evidence from the former Labour leader who said: “You wonder where this hate is coming from”.

3. #MATERNITY: Calls have grown for the Sisters of Charity to detail exactly what procedures will be possible at the new maternity hospital.

4. #UNITED: The potential for a United Ireland was on the front page of the Financial Times.

5. #TERROR CHARGES: A 25-year-old trainee electrician appeared in court charged with providing funding to a foreign terrorist group.