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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.
1. #RUSSIA The US is sending troops to Poland, Germany and Romania in response to rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
2. #CORONAVIRUS Health officials have recorded 5,940 new positive PCR cases of Covid-19, along with 6,620 positive antigen tests.
3. #PENSION An Oireachtas Committee recommended that the government should maintain the state pension age at 66.
4. #BIODIVERSITY The Taoiseach plans to bring a proposal to Cabinet for a long-awaited citizens’ assembly on biodiversity “shortly”.
5. #UK POLITICS Boris Johnson has refused to withdraw a contentious claim he made earlier this week in the House of Commons that Labour leader Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.
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