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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. #THE MORNING AFTER: Protesters lit fires in the streets and blocked traffic in response to Trump’s shock election. Meanwhile, Enda Kenny held a 10-minute conversation with Trump last night. And these are the men (and woman) who could be in the new president’s cabinet come January.

2. #FATAL FOETAL ABNORMALITY: A couple have been live tweeting their trip to the UK for an abortion due to a fatal foetal abnormality.

3. #SIPTU: The union is threatening to ballot all 60,000 of its members unless the Government sits down with it for pay talks.

4. #LINCOLNSHIRE: Two teenagers have been handed 20-year sentences for committing the “cold, ruthless, and chilling” murders of a 49-year-old woman and her daughter in 2015.

5. #SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURT: Bail has been refused for former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, who is charged along with his father with falsely imprisoning, assaulting, and threatening to kill a man.

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