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

1. #NEW REGIME: New Minister for Health Leo Varadkar says that a plan to have universal health insurance in place by 2019 is “too ambitious”.

2. #IN FLIGHT: A passenger has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat on a flight from Doha that was escorted to Manchester.

3. #HOMELESSNESS: More than a family a day are being made homeless in Ireland according to a leading charity.

4. #BARONESS WARSI: A British minister who was the first Muslim to sit in the cabinet has resigned over the Government’s policy on Gaza.

5. #MARBELLA: Former Irish boxing champion Jamie Moore is recovering in hospital after being shot twice in the legs in Marbella.

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