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

1. #PROMOTIONS: Who got the nod, and who lost out? Here are Leo Varadkar’s new junior ministers.

2. #DUBLIN: Two women in their 50s were assaulted in separate attacks while out walking in Rathfarnham last weekend.

3. #SENTENCED: A Belfast woman has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for attempting to lure police officers to their deaths with hoax 999 calls.

4. #AMERICA: There is a “great deal of fear” in the Irish-American community after a man was arrested in Boston on immigration offences last week.

5. #FEELIN’ HOT HOT HOT: It’s hot today, but temperatures are set to reach 29 degrees tomorrow.

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