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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest news stories of the day so far.
1. #LISA THOMPSON: A jury this afternoon took just over three hours to find a man guilty of murdering mother-of-two Lisa Thompson, who was strangled and stabbed to death in her own home.
2. #SECTION 39: SIPTU members employed in Section 39 organisations have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in relation to a long-running pay dispute.
3. #RIP: Two time Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead yesterday afternoon in their New Mexico home in the US.
4. #UKRAINE: Taoiseach Micheál Martin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Shannon Airport earlier.
5. #SPEAKING RIGHTS: The government was accused of treating voters like “idiots” and putting an end to cross-party cooperation in the Dáil following the controversial vote to changes Dáil rules last night.
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