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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. #RIO GAMES: The Olympic Council of Ireland is refusing to pay €410,000 to allow Pat Hickey leave Brazil.

2. #NOT HAPPY: A new extreme right-wing party says the cancellation of its event at the Merrion Hotel in Dublin was ‘frankly inexplicable’.

3. #GROUNDED: Up to 40 pilots at Dublin Airport are going on strike from next week.

4. #VICIOUS CIRCLE: Investors are being blamed for the ‘dramatic’ rise in Dublin house prices.

5. #YUCATAN: Scientists now say there are two ‘Russian doll’ structures within the Kukulkan pyramid in eastern Mexico.