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

1. #EIGHTH AMENDMENT: Fine Gael’s Paschal Donohoe has said that the issue of the Eighth Amendment should be dealt with by the current Oireachtas.

2. #POOLBEG: The controversial Poolbeg incinerator in Ringsend has taken its first delivery of waste.

3. #LONDON: The Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation after Irishman Joseph Kelly died following a row with teenagers in Wood Green, north London.

4. #IRISH RAIL: Is having teething problems with its new online booking service, with some commuters unable to book their trains.

5. #COURTS: A woman who stabbed her former partner to death and hid his body in a back garden has been jailed for six years.

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