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

1. #COURTS: A 24-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with the rape and false imprisonment of a Spanish student in Dublin.

2. #IDENTITY: Gardaí investigating the unidentified body of a woman found in Blanchardstown earlier this week have confirmed it’s the body of Linda Evans.

3. #EVE DOHERTY: A garda on trial for harassing a State solicitor wore a wig and sunglasses while sending an anonymous email from an internet cafe, a court has heard.

4. #CRISIS: The cholera epidemic in Yemen is now “the largest ever recorded in any country in a single year”, says Oxfam.

5. #ARDEE: Three women have died after a three-car crash in Co Louth this morning.

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