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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 before you head out the door.

1. #DRUGS WARNING The HSE has warned people to beware of drugs being sold as N-Bombs, Smiles and Solaris after six people were sent to hospital in Cork after taking drugs at a house party.

2. #COURTS The killer of Melanie McCarthy McNamara has had his 20-year jail sentence cut by two-and-a-half years.

3. #SPY KILLING Russia has described claims that Putin ordered the poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko as ‘a joke’. A UK probe found that Putin ‘probably approved’ the killing of Litvinenko nine years ago.

4. #MISSING Gardaí have issued fresh pictures in the search for missing mother Paige Holland and her one-week-old daughter Neveah, who went missing last week from Roscommmon.

5. #MENTAL HEALTH Bressie appeared before an Oireachtas committee today, where he gave an impassioned speech about suicide, which he termed ‘the epidemic of this generation’.