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

1. #IRISH RAIL: The Public Accounts Committee is to seek the “earliest possible meeting” with the bodies involved in a €50 million write-off of a failed Irish Rail IT project.

2. #GAZA FLOTILLA: The first of the Gaza flotilla activists deported from Israel have arrived in Istanbul. 

3. #YVES SAKILA: Gardaí investigating the death of 35-year-old Congolese Yves Sakila have issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to come forward. 

4. #FRANCE: The Paris Court of Appeal has found Air France and Airbus guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, including three Irish women.

5. #DONALDSON TRIAL: The trial of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and the trial of the facts of his wife Eleanor Donaldson in a historical sexual offences case will proceed simultaneously, a judge ruled.