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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. #EUROPE Mairead McGuinness (FG) is the first person to reach the quota and be deemed elected to the European Parliament.
2. #FRANCE Ian Bailey has gone on trial in France for the murder of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier today, 22 years after she was killed in Cork.
3. #BREXIT An unexpected surge in support for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in the European election has seen Conservatives and Labour support decimated.
4. #MAYOR Limerick has voted in favour of a directly elected mayor while Cork and Waterford have rejected the proposal.
5. #SWING Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey defended her now-dropped action against a Dublin hotel over falling of a swing, in an interview with RTÉ Radio this morning.
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