EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head home for the day.

1. #FRAGILE: A court has heard that Eddie Hutch Jnr whose father was murdered during a series of killings is in a “fragile psychological state”.

2. #DEATH: A pedestrian has died after being hit by a truck on Dublin’s Meath Street.

3. #ABDUCTION: Gardaí are probing an alleged abduction after a man was bundled into the back of another car and taken away.

4. #ATTACK: Firefighters were attacked last night after they responded to a call-out in a west Dublin housing estate.

5. #FIRE: A man in his 70s has been found dead after a house fire in Wexford this morning.

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