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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.

1. #GERMANWINGS Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz researched suicide methods and how cockpit doors worked, it has emerged. Meanwhile, the plane’s second black box has been found.

2. #PICKET LINE Dunnes Stores workers are on protest today - and Tánaiste Joan Burton went to show them some solidarity. 

3. #COURT A 39-year-old man appeared in court over a blaze that destroyed his neighbours’ houses in Newbridge.

4. #TRAGIC A man who killed one woman and sexually assaulted two others in Falkirk has been convicted at a court in Glasgow.

5. #KENYA Students were taken hostage after a deadly attack by gunmen on a university.