EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #AIB: The State has sold approximately 28.75% of its shares in AIB for €3.4 billion, Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe confirmed this afternoon.

2. #PORTLAND ROW: A taxi passenger was killed and a driver injured following an early morning collision in Dublin city.

3. #LONDON: The Grenfell Tower fire was started by a faulty fridge-freezer before it spread to the building’s combustible cladding.

4. #GARY HAGGARTY: A former commander with the Loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force has pleaded guilty to 200 serious offences, including five murders.

5. #LINCOLN: Johnny Depp has sparked controversy with a joke about assassinating US President Donald Trump, despite saying he wasn’t “insinuating anything”.

The comments have been closed as one of the stories relates to an ongoing case.

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