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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. #HOUSING PLAN: The Government published its long-awaited housing plan today, which does away with annual targets and instead aims to deliver a minimum of 300,000 new homes by the end of 2030.
2. #WEATHER WARNING: Met Éireann issued weather warnings for 13 counties nationally from tomorrow, including a Status Orange rain warning for Dublin, Wexford, and Wicklow.
3. #FAR-RIGHT: Sinn Féín expelled a member of the party after her partner was arrested as part of investigations by the anti-terror Special Detective Unit into far-right extremism.
4. #LIMERICK: Two separate investigations are underway into how a violent prisoner escaped custody while attending a hospital in Limerick yesterday.
5. #BOTOX: The Irish Medical Council issued a warning on the dangers of the misuse of botox or administration by unqualified people – which it said can put patients in “serious risk of harm”.
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