EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five big news stories you need to know before you head out the door.

1. #DERRY: A community in Derry is rallying to provide comfort to a woman who lost her husband, two children, mother and sister in last night’s pier tragedy in county Donegal.

2. #SPAIN: Representatives from UCC are set to travel to Barcelona to provide assistance to students injured in yesterday’s bus crash.

3. #EXTRADITION: A law lecturer wanted in the UK for making indecent images of a child has launched a last minute legal bid aimed at halting his extradition from Ireland to England.

4. #DR CONGO: War crimes judges have found former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of a deliberate campaign of widespread rapes and killings by his private army in Central African Republic over a decade ago.

5. #CLIMATE: January and February of this year smashed temperature records and the World Meteorological Organization today warned that climate change was advancing at an “unprecedented” rate.

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