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

1. #COURTS A 17-year-old girl is suing her uncle after €50,000 was taken from a bank account following the death of her parents

2. #TRUMP The Republican nominee for president has doubled down on his insults of former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado

3. #TUAM An excavation is due to take place at the site of a former mother and baby home in the Co Galway town following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies and the manner in which they were buried

4. #BELFAST A man was dragged into an alleyway and shot twice in each leg in a paramilitary style attack last night

5. #FAMILY FORTUNES A Dublin family is to share in a windfall of €2,307,937 after matching six numbers in a Lotto jackpot from 10 September

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