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

1. #PRIVATE BUSES: Dublin Bus has lost 10% of its suburban bus routes to a private UK transport company called Go-Ahead.

2. #CENSUS 2016:  There were 6,906 people recorded as being homeless on census night 2016, 123 of those were sleeping rough.

3. #EGG HEADACHE: Around 700,000 eggs in the UK are thought to be contaminated with an insecticide, but authorities in Ireland say there’s no risk here.

4. #TICKET TOUTS: The GAA has announced it has cancelled a number of tickets for the All-Ireland football semi-final between Dublin and Tyrone, which were being sold above face value by online vendors.

5. #CCTV: Police in London investigating an assault where a jogger appeared to push a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in Putney have made an arrest.

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