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

1. #TRAGEDY Tributes are being paid to a 30-year-old Mayo woman Majella Donoghue who died while on holiday with her fiancé.

2. #WELCOME BACK Golden Discs is returning and will have concession stands in more than half of Tesco’s Ireland stores.

3. #BAD SEX AWARD Six books have been nominated as containing the worst descriptions of sex in the literary world.

4. #CHRISTMAS CHEER The Christmas lights on Henry Street were switched on last night to the delight of all who attended.

5.#TRUMP Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, who once missed out on a federal judge’s position after allegations that he was racist, looks set to be Donald Trump’s attorney general.

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