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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. #COURTS: The ex-boyfriend of Bruna Fonseca has been given a life sentence for strangling Bruna to death in a flat in Cork on New Year’s Day in 2023

2. #LAUGHING GAS: Young people in Ireland are increasingly being diagnosed with spinal cord damage caused by the recreational use of laughing gas, according to a new study of patients at Beaumont Hospital

3. #UKRAINE: Ukrainian, US and Russian officials will hold security talks in the United Arab Emirates today, the Kremlin said, following a meeting of top US negotiators with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on a US-drafted plan to end the Ukraine war

4. #LIMERICK: A jury in Limerick Circuit Court has found a woman guilty of the attempted murder of her eight year old daughter, in Co Clare, four years ago

5. #RIP: Brian Crowley, the former independent and Fianna Fáil MEP, has died at the age of 61

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