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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 biggest stories of the day.

1. #JOBSTOWN: The charges against one of seven men on trial for falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser at an anti-water charges protest have been dropped.

2. #CHILD CARE LAW: A young girl who was seeking an abortion was detained in a psychiatric unit under the Mental Health Act at the end of last year.

3. #LADY IN WAITING: Talks between the Tories and the DUP could take longer than first anticipated, which would delay the Queen’s speech to parliament.

4. #WICKLOW: More remains have been found close to the site of where a torso of a man was discovered over the weekend.

5. #KREMLIN: opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained while travelling to a protest in Moscow, as thousands of his supporters rallied across Russia.

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