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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. #STORM DAVE: A wind warning was issued for the entire country for Saturday as Storm Dave heads our way.

2. #METROLINK: The programme director for Dublin’s long-awaited MetroLink project announced he is stepping down. 

3. #LIMERICK: Two men were treated for injuries after they were shot in Limerick early this morning.

4. #FRANCE: Trump has sparked anger in France after insulting the French president and his wife, imitating a French accent and saying Emmanuel Macron’s wife “treats him extremely badly”.

5. #FARAGE: Reform leader Nigel Nigel Farage sacked his party’s housing spokesman after mounting anger over his comment that the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”.

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