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Evening Wrap
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. #WELFARE STATE: More than half a million people are now claiming the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, meaning that 700,000 people are now claiming some kind of unemployment benefit in Ireland.
2. #RESTRICTIONS: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that there are risks to lifting Covid-19 restrictions on a county-by-county basis, following suggestions about the possibility of this happening in the media over the weekend.
3. #SUPERMARKET SWEEP: Irish retailers experienced the busiest month of grocery sales “ever recorded” in March due to unprecedented levels of demand fueled by the coronavirus, new figures show.
4. #ULSTER SAYS NO: The Orange Order has announced that the North’s annual Twelfth of July parades have been cancelled for the first time since the Second World War due to coronavirus.
5. #UK: Boris Johnson remains in hospital under observation but had a “comfortable” night after being admitted last night with persistent coronavirus symptoms.
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