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Evening Wrap
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. #HOMELESSNESS: There are now more than 5,000 children living in emergency accommodation in Ireland.
2. #NEW JOB: Broadcaster Claire Byrne is leaving RTÉ to join Newstalk as the presenter of a mid-morning programme.
3. #HAT IN THE RING: MEP Billy Kelleher has written to the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party confirming his intentions to seek the party’s nomination for the Presidential election.
4. #DRUG SMUGGLING: Ireland’s most senior organised crime investigator has said the main driving force behind large-scale cocaine smuggling is Irish criminals, but that they have aligned with Iranian-backed organised crime gangs.
5. #STAR WARS: A teenage Irish actor has scored a major role in the upcoming Star Wars film, Star Wars: Starfighter.
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