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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #COVID-19: Italian authorities will make a decision in the next few hours on whether to close all schools and universities in the country until mid-March due to Covid-19.

2. #FLIGHTS: Health Minister Simon Harris has said restricting flights arriving from northern Italy “wouldn’t be effective”. 

3. #LISA SMITH: The solicitor of alleged Islamic State-member Lisa Smith has said the Irish woman is “anxious” to get her case underway in order to prove her innocence.

4. #BLOOMBERG: US billionaire Mike Bloomberg has announced he will be dropping out of the Democratic presidential race.

5. #REDRESS: Abuse survivor Michael O’Brien explained why he felt he had to speak about his experience on a 2009 RTÉ programme that discussed redress for victims of institutional abuse.