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

1. #LONDON: Police are treating the detonation of a homemade explosive on a London tube train as a terrorist incident. At least 18 people were injured.

2. #SUGAR TAX: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he wants to see a sugar tax introduced next year.

3. #SUSPENDED: Veteran broadcaster George Hook has been suspended from Newstalk following widespread condemnation of his comments about rape on his show last Friday.

4. #SUSPICIOUS: A garda investigation is underway after the body of a man in his 40s was found in Ennis in Clare this morning. It’s understood that his death is being treated as suspicious.

5. #TESCO: A security man has been awarded €24,000 after being racially abused by a Tesco store manager.

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