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

1. #ABORTION: Pro-choice activists swallowed abortion pills at Dublin’s Connolly Station after travelling back from Belfast, where the medicines were bought.

2. #MURDER: Media reports in England state that the man found dead in his Bradford home last night killed his wife and two teenage daughters before taking his own life. The family have been named this afternoon.

3. #WINTER IS HERE University Hospital Galway has restricted visitors because of suspected cases of the winter vomiting bug.

4. #FARE THEE WELL: Bus, train and Luas ticket prices will all rise next year.

5. #OUCH: Ryanair will have to pay fines and damages of €8.3 million for breaching French labour laws.

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