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

1. #UKRAINE: A former member of the Irish Defence Forces who died in combat in Ukraine last week was a former member of the elite Army Ranger Wing, The Journal has learned.

Robert Deegan served with distinction in the elite special forces unit before later leaving the Defence Forces. 

2. #LEBANON: The death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon today has risen to 274 people, by far the worst death toll on a single day of any in the past year of hostilities near the border.

The victims include 21 children, according to Lebanon’s ministry for health. 

3. #HOMELESSNESS: President Michael D Higgins Higgins has disagreed with comments made by Taoiseach Simon Harris today in which he linked Ireland’s record level of homelessness with migration.

4. #UNITED IRELAND:Mary Lou McDonald is attending the Labour conference in the UK and this …