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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door.
1. #LOCKOUT: Greyhound workers have voted to end the 14-week lockout at the waste disposal company. The ballot of Siptu employees followed intense negotiations over the weekend between union representatives and Greyhound management
2. #YOU’RE IN THE WAY: A small group of anti water charges demonstrators briefly blocked Tánaiste Joan Burton’s car as she left an event in the Dublin suburb of Raheny this morning.
3. #CRIME: New figures show a marginal drop in crime, but a rise in murder, thefts, and drug offences. It comes as gardaí warn home-owners to be vigilant coming into the winter months.
4. #WAITING LISTS: A new report by the charity Inclusion Ireland has found that almost 3,000 children have been waiting more than 12 months for speech and language therapy.
5. #RING RING: More than ten million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units were sold in its opening weekend, Apple has said, up roughly a million compared to the opening weekend of the iPhone 5s and 5c .
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