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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 biggest stories of the day.

1. #JOBSTOWN: The jury in the trial of six men accused of falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton during a water charges protest will resume deliberations tomorrow.

2. #INCOME TAX: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he wants to cut income tax in October’s Budget.

3. #HILLSBOROUGH: The Crown Prosecution Service in the UK has decided to bring charges against six people referred to it over the Hillsborough disaster.

4. #GRENFELL: British police have increased the death toll in the Grenfell Tower fire to 80 dead or presumed dead, and said that it could take until the end of the year, or longer, before an accurate death toll is known.

5. #CLARE: Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority are investigating after a farmer in his early 50s died last night after falling into a slurry pit on a farm in Co Clare.