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

1. #COURTS A member of An Garda Síochána has appeared before the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning charged with soliciting a person to murder four people in 2021. 

2. #ECLIPSE INJURY Four people attended Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae Hospital’s eye emergency department in the week following the partial eclipse with symptoms of potential eye damage.

3. #MARY TRAVERS Ann Travers has said she “hopes” President Catherine Connolly can use her “influence” to broker a meeting with the woman convicted in relation to her sister’s murder.

4. #DEMOLITION Locals in a remote community on the Dublin-Wicklow border have given a broad welcome to a court order that will see 29 modular homes erected last year demolished in the coming days.

5. #PURSUIT TRAINING Gardaí will not be able to start new training in pursuit tactics by the end of the year despite what the Minister for Justice has said, because instructors have yet to be trained, sources have told The Journal.

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