EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you hit the road.
1.#NO THANKS: Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan says there’s no appetite for another referendum on abortion. These Labour TDs disagree.
2. #SHOOTING: A man in his 40s, named locally as crime boss Andy Connors, was shot dead late last night in Saggart, Co Dublin.
3. #VOLCANO: Iceland has started evacuating tourists from the area around the Bardarbunga volcano after some scary seismic activity recently.
4. #THE CURVE: New figures show there is a massive gap in the rate of students going on to third level, when you compare different postcodes – 99% in Dublin 6, 15% in D 17.
5. #NO MORE: The parents of an American journalist allegedly beheaded by Islamic State jihadists in a video, have pleaded for the lives of other hostages to be spared.
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