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

1. #IRELAND 2040: The government has launched an ambitious €116 billion national planning and capital expenditure plan up to 2040. Here are the main points.

2. #IRELAND 2040: As part of the plan, the government is planning to double current housing output over the next 10 years.

3. #JOANNE LEE : A murder investigation has been launched into the death of Joanne Lee, whose body was found in Ranelagh yesterday.

4. #SCHOOL SHOOTING: Teenager Nikolas Cruz has confessed to gunning down 17 people at his former high school in Florida.

5. #RUGBY RAPE TRIAL: One of the four men facing charges arising from the alleged rape of a woman in Paddy’s Jackson’s Belfast home told police she was “staring at and fixated on” the rugby player.

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