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

1. #RELATABLE: Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan says that after being “bitten, spat at, assaulted” she can relate to rank-and-file gardaí.

2. #INDEPENDENCE NAY: Support for an independent Scotland is plummeting.

3. #TEXT EXCHANGE: The row between Dr Peter Boylan and the board of the National Maternity Hospital has deepened.

4. #IRISH LESSONS: Barack Obama says that immigrants to the US are being vilified in the same manner as the Irish were after the famine.

5. #JOBSTOWN: The trial of seven men accused of false imprisonment was suspended after a juror was discharged.

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