EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you hit the road.
1. #WATER PROTESTS: Tens of thousands of protesters took part in the latest mass demonstration against water charges in Dublin today.
2. #RIOT: The riot squad were deployed outside the Dáil after a Garda was injured at the protest. He is now being treated in hospital.
3. #ÁRAS ATTRACTA: The Taoiseach said he cannot guarantee that the abuse of residents in care is not being repeated in other care homes. It comes after last night’s Prime Time report showed shocking footage of abuse in a state residential care home in Mayo.
4. #GANGS: The Oireachtas heard today about a recent spike in young people taking their own lives amid drug-related debts to gangs in Dublin.
5. #FIGHTERS: The Ebola fighters have been named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year 2014.
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