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

1. #GRAHAM DWYER: Closing arguments from both the prosecution and defence in Graham Dwyer’s murder trial have been completed.

2. #SOLAR ECLIPSE: This morning’s partial solar eclipse in Ireland was obscured by cloud in most parts. Loads of you still got pictures though.

3. #CHA-CHING: The money made by councils from parking fines nationwide has been revealed. Dublin City Council made €4.24 million last year.

4.#TADHG COSTELLO: The family of a child with brain injury have described the HSE’s nine-year delay in apologising as “unacceptable”.

5. #MAKING TRACKS: A petition of almost one million signatures to ‘Bring Back Clarkson’ has been delivered to the BBC’s offices by ‘The Stig’, in a tank.

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