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

1. #LOUTH: A 48-year-old man has appeared in court in Dundalk charged with the murder of a 31-year-old woman.

2. #PAC: The Public Accounts Committee is on a collision course with the government after voting to hold a hearing next Tuesday to scrutinise the expenditure by the Office of the President.

3. #US: Three people have reportedly been killed in a shooting in Maryland in the US, according to a law enforcement official.

4. #BREXIT: The government has announced it will hold four major events during the month of October to inform people about how to prepare for Brexit.

5. #STORM BRONAGH: Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow rainfall warning for seven counties in the southeast of the country – Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford – as Storm Bronagh arrives.

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