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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. #GOLD: Olympic champion Kellie Harrington is back in Dublin and en route home to Portland Row for a hero’s welcome.
2. #MERRIONGATE: Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said he “absolutely accepts” the explanations from his party leader Tánaiste Leo Varadkar with regard to the controversial event in the Merrion Hotel.
3. #CLIMATE: The Government “remains committed” to increasing carbon tax to €100 per tonne, with climate change set to be “central” to discussions around the upcoming budget..
4. #VACCINE: The number of community pharmacies administering the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will double this week to over 700 nationwide, the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has confirmed.
5. #GERMANY: A German man suspected of killing another man for sexual gratification and eating pieces of the victim’s body has gone on trial in Berlin.
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