EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five big news stories you need to know.

1. #UK ELECTION It’s five more years for David Cameron’s Conservatives, but their dreadful showing at the polls has done for three other political leaders – Labour’s Ed Miliband, the Liberal Democrats’ Nick Clegg and the always-controversial UKIP leader Nigel Farage have all fallen on their swords today.

2. #RATHCOOLE: A newborn baby has been found covered in a plastic bag in a Dublin industrial estate and taken to hospital. Gardaí are investigating.

3. #PORTLAOISE: The Health Information and Quality Authority’s (HIQA) report into the deaths of five babies at Portlaoise Hospital doesn’t make for pleasant reading. One couple reported  how their dead baby was brought to them in a metal box.

4. #TRAGIC: A man, who had previously had his penis cut off in a savage attack has been found dead at his home in Middlesbrough, England.

5. #TWEETGATE MARK II: Bryan Dobson left his Twitter logged in overnight at RTE, and had his account hijacked. It’s happened to the best of us…