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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know as you head out the door…

1. #RTÉ: The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has expressed its “dismay and deep disappointment” over the details of its investigation into RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates documentary, A Mission to Prey, being made public. The BAI said that it planned to review the matter to seek to ascertain how the information was made available.

Earlier today, RTÉ also expressed disappointment over the leak of the report “in circumstances where it prejudices RTÉ’s response to the investigation, within an ongoing process, and prejudices the response of the programme-makers as named individuals”.

2. #BOND MARKETS: Ireland has returned to the bond markets for its first major borrowing activity in 16 months – with the National Treasury Management Agency confirming that it will sell annuity bonds, possibly up to 35 years in maturity, later this year.

The statement followed a report by Bloomberg which said the sale could proceed within weeks – marking the first time since September 2010 that Ireland had issued new debt.

3. #SHENANIGANS: Ireland’s youngest TD has criticised the immature behaviour displayed by some of his colleagues on Twitter, accusing them of moving their focus away from their day jobs and instead getting bogged down in personal rows and insults.

After tweeting about the “antics, phony wars and bickering” of the last few days, 25-year-old Simon Harris told TheJournal.ie that it was frustrating for Irish people to see a situation “whereby politicians are rowing over issues that are not based on policy.”

4. #NORWAY: Anders Behring Breivik, the man responsible for the deaths of 77 people in Norway last year, has been found not criminally insane according to a new psychiatric assessment – contradicting an earlier examination that diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic.

The new assessment comes just under a week before Breivik is scheduled to go on trial on terror charges for the massacre on 22 July last year.

5. #FACEBOOK: Facebook has acquired the mobile photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion… but why?

CEO Mark Zukerberg said the reason for the billion-dollar buyout of the company – which had not earned a cent in revenue and has just 13 employees – was to offer Facebook users “the best experience for sharing beautiful photos”.

However, uploading a photo to Facebook is a relatively slow process in comparison to Instagram and the app already had 30 million users – leading some to believe that the move was a bid to keep Facebook’s social networking throne safe. The internet has also been abuzz with claims that the price is inflated and marks the beginning of another tech bubble.

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