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

1. #YOU’RE HIRED (PERMANENTLY): Acting Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has been given the job on a full-time basis.

2. #FERGUSON: Protest and violence have erupted in Missouri and elsewhere after the decision that the police officer who shot Michael Brown won’t be charged.

3. #BRAVERY: Four adults and two children were rescued from a house fire in Dublin with a baby saved after being thrown from a window.

4. #LEE RIGBY: Facebook failed to hand over information about threats by the killers of murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby in London.

5. #MEDICAL CARDS: Terminally ill patients will no longer have their medical cards reviewed as part of a ten-point plan announced today.

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