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

1. #PHOENIX POPE: Pope Francis is set to celebrate Mass in the Phoenix Park on Sunday, 26 August.

2. #RUGBY RAPE TRIAL: Stuart Olding’s barrister has said that his client is telling the truth ‘warts and all’.

3. #JOHN TIGHE: A father accused of murdering his infant son may be found guilt of manslaughter, his trial’s jury has been told.

4. #CRITICISM: Danny Healy Rae faced criticism for comments he had made about abortion in the case of fatal foetal abnormality in the Dáil.

5. #OF COURSE HE DID: Nigel Farage threw a load of dead fish into the River Thames in a protest against Theresa May’s ‘betrayal’ of UK fishermen.

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