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

1. #SSMREF: The Catholic church has yet to decide whether it will carry out the civil element of marriages if the same-sex referendum is passed. Meanwhile the Tánaiste has joined TD Alan Shatter in accusing the No side of ‘using children as weapons’.

2. #MIDDLE EAST: Irish peacekeepers are safe after a mortar attacked injured two others in the Golan Heights. The Minister for Defence is monitoring the situation.

3. CASTLEMARTYR: A 33-year-old man has died after he was struck by a car in Cork.

4. #PRINCESS CHARLOTTE: The royal baby has finally been named. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their second child Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

5. #LGBT: The oldest gay bar in Ireland, Loafers in Cork, has announced its imminent closure. It first opened in 1983, a decade before homosexuality was decriminalised.

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