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

1. #MANCHESTER: At least 22 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a concert in Manchester. The suspect has been named and an eight-year-old girl is among the dead.

2. #ANGLO TRIAL: After 126 trial days, former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán Fitzpatrick has been acquitted of all the charges he faced.

3. #RIP: James Bond actor Roger Moore has died at the age of 89.

4. #HAZEL WATERS: A Dublin mother who was suffering from a personality disorder described her two-year-old son as a “fake child” on the day she killed him with a scissors, a court heard this morning.

5. #BLAST OFF: Ireland’s first satellite is set to be developed after a team of Irish-based researchers got the go-ahead from the European Space Agency.

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