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

1. #FATAL CRASH Tributes have been paid to a mother-of-two who died in a car crash in Meath.

2. #FINED An Australian firm was fined $60,000 after an Irish woman had part of her scalp ripped off in a workplace incident.

3. #FORGETFUL Fine Gael senator James Reilly is among 66 election candidates referred to gardaí by the Standards in Public Office (Sipo) for failing to comply with electoral law.

4. #THREATS PSNI investigating death threats made to Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster.

5. #PULLED Sky Arts has pulled a controversial Michael Jackson comedy following complaints from his immediate family.

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