EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know as you head home for the day.

1. #GRACE: A High Court judge approved a settlement of €6.3 million for the woman at the centre of the Grace case.

2. #HOLLES STREET: Dr Peter Boylan has resigned from the board of the national maternity hospital after criticising the plan for the new hospital at St Vincent’s.

3. #WATER CHARGES: Joan Burton said that she “felt [she] was running for [her] life” while giving evidence in the Jobstown trial.

4. #GANGS: The Tánaiste has said that she wants to weaken the power of gang leaders in Irish prisons.

5. #LONDON: A man found with knives was arrested near the UK Houses of Parliament.

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