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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door.

1. #MOROCCO: A Belgian man with ‘direct links’ to the Paris attackers has been arrested in the north-African country.

2. #KILDARE: Gardaí have confirmed that the man found in a suitcase in the Grand Canal over the weekend was killed at another location.

3. #DOWN SYNDROME: A man who raped a woman with Down Syndrome has been told he’ll have to agree to deportation if he wants any of his sentence suspended.

4. #CORK: Staff at the Apple facilities in Cork have returned to work after being evacuated from the area after a security threat.

5. #GOOD FRIDAY: Irish publicans have called for an end to the ‘archaic’ ban on alcohol being sold on the Friday before Easter.

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