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GOOD EVENING

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

EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five big news stories you need to know before you head out the door.

1. #BERKELEY: Books of condolence have opened around the country for people to pay their respects to the Irish students who died in Tuesday’s balcony collapse. Queues have formed in some areas.

2. #BEHIND THE SCENES: Kevin Cardiff, former secretary general at the Department of Finance, has revealed that Ireland was “pushed quite hard” into a bailout programme. He appeared before the banking inquiry this afternoon.

3. #SCARE: The army bomb disposal team have ruled out any threat after a suspicious package was delivered to the offices of LGBT advocacy group Glen this morning. It is understood the package contained blue powder along with a one-word note which read ‘Goodbye’.

4. #SEIZURE: The details of Operation Pangea have been revealed today, in which tablets and other drugs worth €430,000 were seized in raids last week. It included some ‘dangerous’ erectile dysfunction pills.

5. #HATE CRIME: Police in the United States have arrested a man suspected of shooting dead nine people at a church in Carolina. He has been named as 21-year-old Dylann Roof.

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