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

1. #PROGRESS: A new search is to take place, following fresh developments in the Fiona Pender investigation. Gardaí are to give an update on the inquiry tomorrow.

2. #TRAGIC: Police in the UK searching for a mother and her newborn baby have found their bodies. They went missing earlier this week.

3. #NO CONFIDENCE Sinn Féin is to table a motion of no confidence in Enda Kenny, to coincide with next week’s mass water protest.

4. #MARY LOU: Mary Lou McDonald has come in for some harsh criticism from her PAC colleagues today, in the wake of her comments in the Dáil yesterday.

5. #CAUGHT: And a seizure of ‘liquid cocaine’ has been made at a house in Drumcondra. The drugs were hidden in a gift package of aromatherapy oils.

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