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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 stories of the week.
1. #KENMARE: Gardaí in Kerry have re-arrested the chief suspect in the murder of Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine.
2. #U-TURN: Education Minister Hildegarde Naughton has defended the government’s U-turn on reducing the number of special needs assistants for the next school year, after criticism that it was simply delaying a decision on the issue.
3. #BELFAST CROWN COURT: The trial of a man accused of murdering Natalie McNally, his girlfriend who was 15 weeks pregnant with their child, has heard that he told police at the scene that her ex-partner was responsible.
4. #HOUSING: Market rents nationally rose by 4.4% last year and are now 80% higher than a decade ago.
5. #UKRAINE: Today marks the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II which has cost tens of thousands of lives.
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