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

1. #TERRORISM: The Garda-led investigation into the funding of international terrorism which led to the arrest and charge of an Irish citizen involved the FBI, Interpol and the London Metropolitan Police, a court has been told. Hassan Bal was refused bail today.

2. #JOBSTOWN: Former Tánaiste Joan Burton should, as a public representative, be “big enough and bold enough” to take distasteful name-calling on board, a trial has heard.

3. #HOME SWEET HOME: Lord Mayor of Dublin Brendan Carr has called on the Home Sweet Home campaign to donate the remaining funds it raised (€129,000) to housing and homelessness charities.

4. #EIGHTH AMENDMENT: Bríd Smith of Solidarity-PBP said she would not be surprised if the majority of politicians sitting on the special Oireachtas committee tasked with debating the Citizen’s Assembly’s final report on Ireland’s abortion laws are “anti-choice”.

5. #LUAS: Renua has compared the Luas works currently taking place across Dublin to a “war-zone” which makes the city “harder to escape from than Alcatraz”.

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