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

1.#DISCIPLINED Schools will now be required to report all complaints made against them.

2.#DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Harrowing report into violence in the home reveals how thousands of families are suffering in silence.

3.#DONE DEAL Gardaí accept pay deal offered by the Labour Court as threat of strike action now officially averted.

4.#BUTCHER OF BOSNIA Serbian commander Ratko Mladic up in court for genocide.

5.#TOY SHOW DISASTER Schoolkids left devasated after they were cut from TV3′s Toy Show following a “technical issue”.

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