EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.
1. #GIBNEY SENTENCED Former swimming coach George Gibney has been sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison for sexually abusing four girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
2. #STRIKE Minister Jack Chambers has written to union bosses in a last-ditch effort to bring them to the table ahead of Wednesday’s public sector strike.
3. #FREED Robert Pether, an Australian engineer who was jailed in Iraq for five years, is on his way back to Ireland to reunite with his family.
4. #MENTAL HEALTH Two maternity hospitals are not currently providing specialist mental health services for pregnant women and new mothers due to staffing constraints.
5. #CUT THE CRAP Locals and councillors are calling for action after multiple bags of horse manure were dumped in a green area by the Royal Canal in Dublin 7.