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

1. #SHATTER: The Taoiseach has announced that the Justice Minister Alan Shatter has resigned.

2. #FOUND: An Irish man who had been missing in Australia for four days has been found alive. He was found in a stairwell in a shopping centre, just yards from where he was last seen.

3. #CRASH: A man is his 60s has died after a car crash in Donegal.

4. #MURDER: A man has been arrested and charged with a 2009 murder in Tallaght. The 29-year-old was arrested in Dundalk this afternoon.

5. #IRISH SLANG: The broadcasting Authority of Ireland have decided that Jason Byrne was not referring to the Traveller community when he used the word ‘knackers’ on The Late Late Show.

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