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

1. #YES OR NO: These are the eight answers the Garda Commissioner gave when asked if she had confidence in her team when she appeared before the PAC.

2. #GARE CENTRALE: Belgian security forces have identified a man who set off an explosion at a Brussels train station before he was shot and killed.

3. #PROPERTY: The green light has been given for the demolition of both Apollo House and Hawkins House as part of a new €50 million development for Dublin city centre.

4. #COURT: The Jobstown trial has heard that gardaí made “unwise and inappropriate” decisions at a water charges protest during which the former Tánaiste Joan Burton was allegedly falsely imprisoned.

5. #RATHMINES: Tributes are being paid to a ‘much loved’ school principal who was killed while cycling following a collision with car yesterday morning.

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