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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. #GALWAY: A Galway man was sentenced to four months imprisonment for threatening online to kill Tánaiste Simon Harris and his family.

2. #SPECIAL NEEDS: The Government is pausing the controversial review into how Special Needs Assistants are allocated after major backlash.

3. #ROWS: The owners of popular Dublin nightclub Yamamori Izakaya said they find it “extremely difficult” to accept claims made by the neighbouring Hoxton Hotel that its owners are not seeking to “curtail cultural or nightlife activity”.

4. #CHEAP DIRTY MEAL: Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins has railed against the quality of food in the Hot School Meals programme, saying you would need a “very strong stomach” to eat some of it. 

5. #TEXAS: Seamus Culleton’s lawyers said they’ve won a temporary stay on his deportation from the US, meaning the Irish man can remain in the country for at least the next fortnight.

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