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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 day.

1. #WATERFORD: A woman in her 50s was stabbed at a church in Tramore this morning.

2. #ANN WIDDECOMBE: A man appeared in court charged with murdering Ann Widdecombe by hitting her 21 times on the head with a hammer.

3. #E-SCOOTERS: Could Ireland be the first place to ban e-scooters? And how are other countries dealing with them?

4. #ANDY BURNHAM: New British prime minister Andy Burnham and Taoiseach Micheál Martin discussed legacy issues in the North and Ukraine during their first phone call.

5. #GERMANY: A group of seven Irish politicians have travelled to Germany to attend the trial of an Irish man and four other pro-Palestinian activists charged with causing about €1 million worth of damage at the factory of an Israeli-owned defence company.

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