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

1. #EUROPE Mairead McGuinness (FG) is the first person to reach the quota and be deemed elected to the European Parliament. 

2. #FRANCE Ian Bailey has gone on trial in France for the murder of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier today, 22 years after she was killed in Cork.

3. #BREXIT An unexpected surge in support for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in the European election has seen Conservatives and Labour support decimated. 

4. #MAYOR Limerick has voted in favour of a directly elected mayor while Cork and Waterford have rejected the proposal. 

5. #SWING Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey defended her now-dropped action against a Dublin hotel over falling of a swing, in an interview with RTÉ Radio this morning. 

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