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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 Five stories, five minutes, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #NORTHERN IRELAND: 1,080 further cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Northern Ireland over the past 24 hours.

2. #SCHOOLS: A mother has raised concerns about the contact tracing system after it took four days for the HSE to contact her daughter’s school when she was confirmed to have Covid-19.

3. #PATRICIA KELLY: The widow of the late founder of suicide prevention charity Console has appeared in court charged with fraudulent trading and money laundering over a ten year period.

4. #MID-TERM BREAK: No decision has been made on closing schools for longer than initially planned at the mid-term break.

5. #INFANTS: Modern babies are being born without wisdom teeth as humans continue to evolve at a rapid rate, a study has found.