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

1. #STABBING: A teenager has died following a stabbing in Tallaght.

2. #TURKEY: A car bomb explosion has killed a policeman, a court worker and wounded ten people outside a courthouse in the Turkish city of Izmir.

3. #CORK: A man in his 70s has died in a house fire on Cork city’s northside.

4. #NO SHOW: Apple has said that it will not be attending the Oireachtas Finance Committee hearing on the European Commission’s Apple Tax ruling.

5. #APOLLO HOUSE: Campaigners have said they will not vacate Apollo House unless the Government agrees to certain demands.

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