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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. #EDUCATION: The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation condemned the Minister for Children’s proposed changes to the Assessment of Need process as a “solo run” and a “profound breach of trust”.

2. #GAA: A 59-year-old man was jailed for an attempted pipe bomb attack on East Belfast GAA.

3. #TOY SHOW: Changing the time that The Late Late Toy Show airs would be “like getting rid of the Angelus”, RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst told the Oireachtas Media Committee.

4. #THE MONK: Spanish officials said an ongoing examination of a file by the country’s public prosecutions office will not halt Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch from standing in the upcoming Dublin central by-election. 

5. #CORK: A 31-year-old man was charged in connection with a number of alleged offences involving the stealing of cattle, including the theft of 18 cattle with a value of €30,000 at a farm in Skibbereen, Co Cork last month.

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