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

1. #STRIKE OVER: Bus Éireann workers are to return to work after 21 days on strike.

2. #ATTACK: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said a chemical weapons attack was a “fabrication” to justify a US military strike.

3. #ROAD CRASH: A man in his 30s has died after the motorcycle he was riding struck a wall in Dublin this morning.

4. #FIONA SINNOTT: Gardaí said they are currently pursuing further lines of inquiry in their investigation into the disappearance of Wexford woman Fiona Sinnott nineteen years ago.

5. #SUGARMAN: Banking whistleblower Jonathan Sugarman testified in front of an Oireachtas committee today, saying his life was “ruined” after alerting officials to liquidity breaches at UniCredit.

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