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GOOD EVENING

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. #CHARLIE: Former RTÉ presenter Charlie Bird is receiving hospice care at home, two years after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

2. #DUNMURRY: Police in the North are treating reports that Nazi flags were placed on lampposts near a mosque in Belfast as a “racially motivated hate crime”.

3. #TV LICENCE: Minister Simon Harris has said he will not be asking his constituents to pay more money to RTÉ without a “clear reform plan” presented by the broadcaster.

4. #COURTS: A 65-year-old tourist returning to her hotel in Dublin was dragged on the ground into a laneway during a “predatory” robbery, a court has heard.

5. #MOON: India has become the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s south pole.