The 5 at 5: Thursday

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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know before you head out the door.

1. #ITALY : Up to 93 asylum-seekers have drowned after a boat carrying 500 people caught fire and capsized near an Italian island.

2. #ASSAULT: Gardaí are investigating the alleged s exual assault of a 20-year-old female student in Phoenix Park early on Tuesday morning.

3. #GONE: Peter Mathews, who was expelled from the Fine Gael parliamentary party for voting against the abortion bill, has now resigned the party completely.

4. #SEANAD: TheJournal.ie has learnt that the government’s defeat in last nights vote in the Seanad on upward only rent reviews was due to confusion among Labour senators on the party’s position.

5. #RAID: A man has been arrested and a quantity of cash has been recovered following an armed cash-in-transit robbery in Dublin today.

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