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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you hit the road.

1. #FRENCH MASSACRE A manhunt is under way in Paris for three masked gunmen who escaped after killing twelve people at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

2. #KILDARE TRAGEDY The four young women who died in a car crash in Athy last night have been named.

3. #GSOC Simon O’Brien, the chairman of the Garda Ombudsman, is to resign at the end of the month to take up a role in the UK.

4. #NO DICE Former Anglo CEO David Drumm has failed in his bid for bankruptcy in the US.

5. #MISSING Gardaí have appealed for information as they search for two missing men – David Coleman from Roscommon and Michael Shanley from Dublin.

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