EVERY WEEKDAY evening, TheJournal.ie brings you the five things you really should know before you head out the door…

1. #RACE FOR THE ÁRAS: Independent candidate Mary Davis has revealed her full P60 tax filings for the last three years after facing questions about her earnings from posts on State and other boards. The documents reveal that she earned €183,083.82 from State boards over three years, contributing to a total wage of €156,310 gross last year.

- The National Library has said it does not know whether clemency appeal letters written by David Norris for his former partner Ezra Nawi are part of the Senator’s personal archive lodged with the institution in 2007. However in a statement, the library said it had agreed not to make public any of the documents without Norris’s express permission.

- Seán Gallagher has made a final appeal to his fellow candidates to produce one common election leaflet between them, which he claims will save the taxpayer more than €10 million. However, he said the silence from other presidential hopefuls on the issue has been “deafening”.

2. #FIRE: A house fire which killed a five-year-old girl in Boyle, Co Roscommon in the early hours of this morning is now being treated as suspicious by gardaí. A man in his 40s and two more children aged three and four escaped the fire, which broke out between 2.30am and 3am.

3. #AMANDA KNOX: Murder accused Amanda Knox has made an emotional final plea to the court hearing an appeal over her conviction for the 2007 murder of  her flatmate Meredich Kercher in Italy, telling jury members: “I did not kill, I have not raped, I did not steal.” The verdict is due at 7pm Irish time.

4. #BANAMA REPUBLIC: Nama has confirmed it will be pursuing the pension funds of indebted developers, in an attempt to recoup money owed. The move comes as part of an apparent attempt to persuade the developers to approve Nama’s business plans for their properties.

5. #BY-ELECTION: Barry Caesar Hunt, a Dublin hairdresser best known for appearing on last year’s The Apprentice, has confirmed he will run for the Dáil in the Dublin West by-election on October 27. Hunt, who owns WestEnd Barbers in Blanchardstown, said it was “time to give people hope” and that “small changes can make huge differences”.