EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door.

1.#BALBRIGGAN: A man was shot dead in Dublin this morning. A woman was also hit in the upper thigh in the incident in Balbriggan.

2.#MCNULTYSHAMBLES: The ongoing controversy over Fine Gael’s nominee for the Seanad by-election rumbles on. John McNulty today stepped down from the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, saying that his resignation was not linked to the furore over his appointment, rather to do with internal rules. Meanwhile, one Fine Gael TD said people are “disgusted” with how the party is run, while a woman overlooked in favour of McNulty left the party.

3.#TIGER KIDNAPPING: Three women were taken at gunpoint as part of a tiger kidnapping in Dublin. The incident occurred in Malahide this morning.

4.#INQUEST: Dhara Kivlehan, who died after undergoing an emergency c-section in Sligo General Hospital in 2010, did not see a specialist for 60 hours after she was diagnosed with acute renal failure. The inquest into the death heard that the delay was “not appropriate”, but did not affect overall care.

5.#GOING NOWHERE: The chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) says he has “no intention of resigning” nor do any of his commissioner colleagues. Simon O’Brien told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that GSOC had learned from the affair and they “wanted to move on”.