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

1. #PROGRESS: The Department of Justice and garda union the GRA, have released statements announcing that they will use state negotiators on an ad hoc basis.

2. #SMITHFIELD: Eight people have been taken to hospital after a Luas tram and a tourist bus collided in Dublin this morning.

3. #BELFAST: Northern Ireland’s High Court has rejected a legal challenge to Brexit – the first judicial ruling on the issue in the UK.

4. #STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE: Sinn Féin’s Séan Crowe has hit out at what he described as “brutal tactics” used by US police against Native Americans at a protest.

5. #LET HIM ENTERTAIN YOU: Robbie Williams is coming back to Dublin next summer to play a huge stadium show at the Aviva Stadium.

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