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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. #SENTENCED: A man who raped his son from the age of six years old and locked him in a box in their Waterford home has been jailed for 14 years.

2. #GERMANY: A Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting a jihadist bomb attack.

3. #IRISH WATER: Irish Water has put out a tender for a debt collection service.

4. #BREXIT: UK newspapers are reporting that the UK will look to have Ireland strengthen immigration controls at its ports and entry points to avoid the reintroduction of a ‘hard border’.

5. #PRESIDENTIAL: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off against one another last night in the second of the live televised debates.

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