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The 5 at 5: Thursday

Here are the five things you need to know as you head out of the office this afternoon.

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EVERY WEEKDAY evening, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know at 5pm.
  1. #ECB Ireland’s plans to return to the bond markets when it exits its EU-IMF bailout programme have been given a significant boost, after the European Central Bank said it had agreed to begin a new programme of buying bonds from bailout countries.
  2. #REPUTATION Despite the ongoing bailout programme, Ireland’s reputation is on the increase, says the G8 group of the world’s richest countries.  Ireland is now ranked as the world’s 15th most reputable country.
  3. #HOMELESSNESS 3,808 people are now homeless in Ireland, says the Central Statistics Office, in the first detailed count of how many homeless people there are in Ireland. 457 of them are under the age of 14
  4. #PARADES The Royal Black Institution has apologised to a Catholic parish after playing music outside a catholic church, against the advice of the Parades Commission.
  5. #POPEMOBILE And the pope is getting a new set of wheels. French car maker Renault is providing the pontiff with an electric popemobile that is silent and emits no pollutants whatsoever. Oh yea, except when you plug it in at night and leccie it up with that most non pollutant of things, a fossil fuel plant.

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  • 15th Most reputable country…. Get the Champers out.. It’s nearly the weekend and we’ve got a fresh€1billion of Troika money to spend!!!

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  • we krep paying , and getting more in debt, greenland and brazil back in market and never paid a penny back,, they at least know a gamble is a chance, but the irish just say oh no,,,, ah give it back and bankrupt our country, rest of europe going down, lower interest rates, but we just say tax struggling homeowners, well they wont get a penny from me, as i will never pay my mortgage off in this life time, as no jobs there anymore, and i would not mind going to jail, 3 square meals a day, and heating for winter months, my kids would want to come also,,, wonder if we do bad behaviour would they keep us there, and i want to go to that prison without walls, where all the rich go,, i am so missing out on living

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    • @Jackie Crowe according to your FB page you’ve ben to all these places in 2012???

      Travelled to Maidstone, Kent
      Travelled to New York City Ballet
      Moved to Sparkhill Park
      Travelled to Zákinthos, Zakinthos, Greece
      Travelled to Esbjerg, Denmark
      Travelled to Walt Disney World
      Travelled to Paris, France
      Travelled to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
      Travelled to Salou, Cataluna, Spain
      Travelled to Venice, Italy
      Travelled to Adeje, Canarias, Spain
      Travelled to Niagra Falls

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    • Nice one Mark, Jackie your and asstard.

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    • Off to jail with you so, since you love it so much.

      And tell me when Brazil was ever bailed out?

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  • Spend some of the Troika cash on homes for the needy!!

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  • Congratulations, Jody, on pointing out that electric cars still require fossil fuel.. until we start generating electricity from renewable resources.

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    • France generates 75% of its energy from Nuclear but we can’t even have a rational debate without going all Fukushima in Ireland , maybe we can lead the world on wind power but even spirit of Ireland appears a bit more quiet these days , i would have thought with some ingenuity we should be able o change our energy into wind m turn every car on the island electric and try be a world leader as a green island but seems we are turning into a whine feast of begrudgary and complaints about troikas , banks and governments and not enough ingenuity and forward movement I’m afraid

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