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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. #SHANE: Nick Cave, Gerry Adams, and Johnny Depp have been amongst those to speak, sing and pay their respects at the ongoing funeral of Pogues singer Shane MacGowan.
2. #ASYLUM SEEKERS: are arriving in Ireland but being offered no accommodation by the State, including 80 people between Monday and Wednesday of this week.
3. #WEATHER: It’s to be be a wet and windy weekend ahead with a weather warning issued for three counties.
4. #GAZA: Israeli TV appeared to show scores of stripped Palestinian men sitting on a Gaza street in military custody yesterday, with a London-based news outlet saying one of its journalists was among them.
5. DRUGS: The HSE has issued a warning to heroin users in Cork after eight people overdosed over the course of 36 hours this week.
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