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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head out the door.

1. #JOBSTOWN: Former Tánaiste Joan Burton has given evidence at a trial of a 17-year-old boy who is charged with her false imprisonment at a water charges protest in Tallaght in November 2014.

2. #GASCOIGNE: Ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne has been fined after pleading guilty to a racially-aggravated offence.

3. #NEW YORK: The NYPD have released a photo of a man wanted in connection with a bombing in Manhattan on Saturday.

4. #LIMERICK: €500 million is to be pumped into Limerick in an effort to transform the city.

5. #THINK IN: Fianna Fáil won’t back Sinn Féin’s motion to scrap water charges despite being in favour of scrapping the charges themselves.

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