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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. #GARDA COMMISSIONER: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he wants a new Garda Commissioner to be appointed “sooner rather than later“.

2. #TRACKER MORTGAGES: Ed Sibley, the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, wants board members of banks who overcharged their customers to be held to account for the damage caused by the tracker mortgage scandal.

3. #RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME: Up to 530 family members of refugees already living in Ireland are to be reunited under new government plans.

4. #PRISON: Inmates have been given €500,000 in interest-free loans by the Irish Prison Service over the past three years.

5. #NORTHERN IRELAND: British Secretary of State James Brokenshire has published a budget for Northern Ireland, a move described as “British direct rule” by SDLP leader Colum Eastwood.

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