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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…

1. #ABORTION: Last year, 26 terminations were carried out in Irish hospitals under new abortion laws. Three of the terminations related to potential suicide.

2. #TUNISIA: The brother of an Irish woman shot dead in last week’s terror attack has said she was their family’s ‘little baby’.

3. #GREECE: As Greeks queue outside ATMs to withdraw their maximum of €60 a day, what next for the country and its place in the eurozone?

4. #REBEL ALLIANCE: A group of independent candidates who will run under the banner of the Independent Alliance in the general election have made their first pitch.

5. #FREE TO AIR: RTÉ has lost the automatic broadcasting rights to the Summer Olympics from 2020, but they’ve insisted all’s not lost yet.