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

1. #BORDEAUX: At least 43 people, most of them elderly, were killed when a coach collided with a lorry and caught fire in southwest France.

2. #TRAIN STRIKE: This morning’s train strike will not continue into this evening, but management and unions are still in disagreement.

3. #ASSAULT: A Tipperary man who began sexually abusing his niece while she was in her First Holy Communion dress has been jailed for 10 years for rape.

4. #REPEAL THE 8TH: Pro-choice activists are to deliver illegal abortion pills to women across the country over the next two days as part of their campaign.

5. #DUBLIN: A man is in serious condition in hospital this morning after being hit by a truck on Merchants Quay in Dublin.

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