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GOOD EVENING

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. #SMEAR CAMPAIGN: Mick Wallace has told the Charleton Tribunal that he believes there was an orchestrated campaign to undermine Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

2. #QUASHED: A Louth man has had his conviction for raping a 15-year-old family friend quashed over a ruling which prevented his lawyers from questioning the girl, who asserted that she was a virgin before their encounter, as to why she was on the contraceptive pill at the time.

3. #HUTCH: The Irish man who sparked a deadly gangland feud with the murder of Gary Hutch has been jailed for 22 years.

4. #NOT WORKING: Many Bank of Ireland customers have been complaining of Visa debit cards being declined at ATMs and during in-store transactions this afternoon.

5. #TRUMP: TIME magazine’s cover has hit out at Trump’s border separation policy by putting a photo of the US President looking down at a crying migrant child.