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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. #MURDER INVESTIGATION: Gardaí leading the murder probe into the disappearance of Fiona Pender in 1996 have commenced a fresh excavation on an area of land in Co Laois.
2. #CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT: A jury has resumed considering its verdict in the trial of murder accused Richard Satchwell.
3. #OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE: RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has criticised the “totally inaccurate” news coverage of a video advertisement which features paid actors portraying RTÉ journalists.
4. #GAZA: An aid worker has said that an aid distribution hub run by a US-Israeli backed organisation in Gaza is “humiliating and insulting” to people impacted by Israel’s blockade on the region.
5. #FRANCE: A French court has handed a 20-year jail sentence to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, over a period of two decades.
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