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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. #SYMPHYSIOTOMY A total of 399 women have received between €50,000 and €150,000 in compensation for symphysiotomy procedures that were performed on them to devastating consequences.

2. #ATTACK Gardaí in Kildare are looking to talk to people who travelled on a bus through Castleblayney to Maynooth on Sunday night about an attack on a young university student.

3. #UP THE LADDER After coming under significant pressure, the government has approved promotions for 11 senior gardaí.

4. #COURTS A woman in Tipperary charged over the killing of her partner has told a court she was acting in self-defence.

5. #ROVERS RETURN It lost them for a couple of years, but TV3 will welcome back British soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale with open arms from the start of next month.