EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #FLOODING: Dozens of families have been displaced by last week’s severe flooding in Co Donegal.

2. #HOMELESSNESS: The Peter McVerry Trust has today outlined 12 measures it feels will bring “meaningful and effective solutions to the current homelessness and housing crisis”.

3. #LIMERICK: An “out of control” teenager was admitted to a children’s ward at a hospital over the weekend as the Child and Family Agency had nowhere else to place him.

4. #NORTH KOREA: Millions of people in Japan awoke to ominous text messages warning them to take cover as a North Korean missile flew overhead.

5. #GROCERIES: SuperValu has remained Ireland’s most popular grocer by market share, despite some strong growth by its closest rival Tesco.

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