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

1. #WATER: The Troika have been in Ireland conducting a review and they don’t like the new flat water charge arrangements. Elsewhere, the Taoiseach also got an earful from protesters in Cork.

2. #PARASITES: A Fine Gael TD has apologised after comparing water charge protesters to ISIS and Dubliners to parasites.

3.  #THORNBERRY: Ukip won a by-election in the UK while a Labour MP resigned after a ‘snobbish’ tweet.

4. #COME HOME: Illegal Irish emigrants in the US may be able to freely move in and out of the country as part of a major reform by President Obama.

5. #CHELSEA: At least two men died and a further six people were injured after a balcony collapsed in west London.

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