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

1. #LANSDOWNE ROAD: Rank and file gardaí overwhelmingly voted to reject the new public pay deal.

2. #JOBSTOWN: Seven teenagers arrested in relation to a water protest last year appeared in the Children’s Court in Dublin.

3. #BABY BOOM: China is to scrap its decades-long one-child policy.

4. #SEXUAL HEALTH: The HSE launched a new national policy aimed at tackling the increase in STI infections.

5. #FOLLOW THE MONEY: Google Ireland accounts showed the corporation paid over €28.6 million in corporate taxes on a turnover of €18.3 billion here in 2014.

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