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

1. #COURTS: A man has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a young girl in north Dublin last month.

2. #BELFAST: Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh will not face a terror trial after judges at the High Court rejected a Crown Prosecution Service appeal against the decision to throw out the case.

3. #MORIARTY TRIBUNAL: Businessman Denis O’Brien has said the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has decided not to pursue any prosecution against him over the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal – the payments to politicians inquiry.

4. #MANDELSON FILES: Keir Starmer was warned there was a “general reputational risk” over Peter Mandelson’s relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein before giving him the role of ambassador to the US.

5. #STRAIT OF HORMUZ: The United States has said it destroyed more than a dozen Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz as the war between Iran, Israel and the US continues to escalate across the Middle East, with more cargo ships coming under attack in the Persian Gulf.

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