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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. #BERTIE: Micheál Martin has said his party “don’t approve” of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s comments on immigration, which he made while being covertly filmed.

2. #STARMER: UK health secretary Wes Streeting spent just 16 minutes inside Downing Street this morning for what were billed as crunch talks with Keir Starmer, as he eyes a bid to challenge the British prime minister’s leadership. 

3. #NOROVIRUS: French authorities have confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew, including many Irish passengers, on a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after a passenger died from a suspected norovirus.

4. #AMBULANCE STRIKE: Union representatives and HSE officials are set for Labour Court crunch talks on Thursday morning, ahead of further ambulance worker strike action planned for next week.

5. #CHINA: US president Donald Trump has landed in Beijing for a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping aimed at easing deep tensions between the rival superpowers.

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