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

1. #BREXIT: Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has urged the British government to change its strategy for leaving the European Union, telling MPs it is “not too late to save Brexit”.

2. #FACEBOOK: Retail Excellence Ireland has suspended its partnership with Facebook after a Channel 4 documentary that aired last night claimed thousands of reported posts remained unmoderated and on the site.

3. #THAILAND: Twelve boys and their football coach rescued from a cave in Thailand spoke to the media for the first time at a televised press conference.

4. #NORTHERN IRELAND: DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr has been suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days for failing to declare benefits he received from the Sri Lankan government.

5. #DUBLIN: Two brothers were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a gunman who shot at their home in 2017.

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