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

1. #ARREST: Two men have been arrested in Amsterdam after an incident in which another man told police he was threatened in the city’s Rembrandt Square.

2. #EXPLOSIVES: A man who was arrested trying to transport 1.6 kilos of high-grade explosives and three detonators on the Bus Éireann bus to Derry has been jailed for seven years by the Special Criminal Court.

3. #FROZEN: The High Court has continued orders freezing the assets of a woman who a judge ruled must pay her step son more than €500,000 out of a lotto jackpot win.

4. #TRUMP: Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar has said that he ‘wouldn’t be keen’ on inviting Donald Trump to visit Ireland.

5. #DEATH: An Irishman has died in Barcelona, Spain after falling ill on Saturday night.

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