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The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.

1. #MURDER INVESTIGATION Tributes have been paid to Masuma Sohrabi, an Iranian woman aged in her 30s who was killed in Clifden, Co Galway.

2. #ISRAEL BOYCOTT A potential boycott of Ireland’s football matches with Israeli “may have no impact at all”, according to the Taoiseach, who was reacting to protests that disrupted Thursday’s match with Qatar.

3. #KNIGHT IN PERSPIRING ARMOUR A company that organises medieval banquets in a 15th-century castle has been ordered to implement strict temperature controls at the venue following claims that staff in velvet costumes were fainting from heat.

4. #JULY PROVISIONS Here’s how the weather is looking for your outdoor bank holiday weekend plans – with plenty on around the country to keep you busy.

5. #NOBODY NEEDS THIS “I pride myself on being a lickarse in the airport security queue,” Emer McLysaght writes in her latest column.

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