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GOOD EVENING

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

Wax statues of One Direction at Madame Tussaud's in Tokyo. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

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

1. #CARRAUNTOOHIL: A video of a cross being cut down on Ireland’s highest mountain, along with anti-Catholic Church messages, was sent to journalists.

2. #JOHN CORRIE: After the discovery of a homeless man’s body near Leinster House, Alan Kelly announced an emergency forum on homelessness.

3. #STRIKE: 350,000 secondary school students suffered the agony of a day off today, as teachers unions held strikes over plans to change the Junior Cert curriculum.

4. #WAITING: Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa will be stuck in an Egyptian prison for another year, as his trial was delayed yet  again.

5. #HATING SPEECH: Death threats have been sent to the creator of a blog which ‘outs’ people as racists with messages to their employers.