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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. #KAREN BUCKLEY Police in Glasgow have found a handbag they believe belongs to missing Irish student Karen Buckley

2. #RIP Percy Sledge, known for singing When A Man Loves A Woman, has died. He was 74.

3. #THE HARDEST WORD Mary Lou McDonald is refusing to apologise to a number of former politicians, claiming she did not abuse Dáil privilege by naming them as among those accused of evading tax by a whistleblower.

4. #SAME SEX MARRIAGE Patron of the Iona Institute, Breda O’Brien, has said there is “no human right” to marriage equality. She was responding to Mary McAleese’s public comments on the referendum.

5. #TRAGEDY A one-year-old child has died after being shot in the face by a three-year-old boy in Cleveland.