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GOOD EVENING

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

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

1. #BERKELEY: Two Irish students who died in last week’s balcony collapse in California have been laid to rest – Niccolai Schuster in Rathgar, and Olivia Burke in Foxrock.

2. #TENSIONS: Sinn Féin has disputed claims that the entire membership of its Fermoy cumann tendered their resignations to the party in the wake of the sanctioning of two councillors in the region.

3. #ALL CHANGED: New figures haven shown house prices fell in Dublin last month as the cost increases continued their spread outside the capital.

4. #ON THE EDGE: Greece has knocked back budget measures put forward by its creditors that would enable the cash-strapped country to get its last instalment of bailout cash.

5. #JUST IN CASE: Former Department of Finance secretary general Kevin Cardiff has revealed that he had a small group of people working on a contingency plan for Ireland exiting the euro.