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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 as you head out the door.

1. #FINGLAS: A violent stand-off between two families in Finglas last night caused roads to be closed in the area this morning.

2. #CALLELY: Political reaction to Ivor Callely’s prison sentence has continued with Gerry Adams saying that ‘if he’d been a kid from a disadvantaged area stealing €4k he might have got a different sentence’.

3. #GENDER GAP: Statistics from the CSO show that there are more women in the civil service but more men in senior positions.

4. #SMASHING: Part of a Dublin street was closed off this afternoon after windows began cracking in an office building.

5. #GAZA: A 16-year-old girl from who’s been live-tweeting the bombing in Gaza published audio of on an explosion that’s gone viral.

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