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

1. #STRIKE: Unions at Irish Rail have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a pay dispute.

2. #SEANAD: Sinn Féin had said it is “actively considering” whether to run a candidate against Labour’s nominee Mairia Cahill in the Seanad by-election.

3. #KUNDUZ: The US has said that Afghan forces requested the air strike on an MSF hospital in Afghanistan that killed 22 people.

4. #NOBEL PRIZE: An Irish-born scientist has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for his joint-discovery of treatments against parasites.

5. #NOVEMBER SURPRISE?: Taoiseach Enda Kenny refused to rule out an early election, fuelling more rumours the country could go to the polls as soon as next month.

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