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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.

1. #HIT AND RUN Gardaí are appealing for information after a young female pedestrian was seriously injured in a hit and run road traffic collision in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, Saturday.

2. #GERMANY Five people have been killed and 200 have been injured after a car was driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg yesterday evening.

3. #WEATHER Met Éireann has issued Status Yellow wind and snow-ice warnings for a number of counties across the country. 

4. #HE SAID SHE SAID Pope Francis has told Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another as he used his annual Christmas greetings to admonish the backstabbing and gossiping among his closest collaborators.

5. #UNCERTAINTY Families in a Letterkenny housing estate have been left in limbo after finding out that a deal for their landlord to sell the homes to Donegal County Council is on the verge of collapse.