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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. #LIMERICK: Three serving gardaí appeared before Limerick District Court today, charged in connection with an investigation surrounding the alleged squaring away of Fixed Charge Notices.
2. #PORTUGAL: An Irish man was found dead in a Portuguese police cell just hours after he was arrested for allegedly attacking his partner.
3. #’TOUGH’ YEAR: Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald spoke publicly for the first time about her husband Martin’s cancer diagnosis.
4. #INTEREST RATE: The European Central Bank lowered its key interest rate by a quarter point, the second such cut this year as inflation steadily heads towards the two-percent target.
5. #SPACEX: A group of billionaires made history today by becoming the first civilians to perform spacewalks, as NASA hailed “a giant leap forward” for the commercial space industry.
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