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GOOD EVENING

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

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

1. #HMV HMV stores in Ireland are to close for good, with all 300 staff to be made permanently redundant. Deloitte confirmed that efforts to find buyers for the 16 Irish stores – which closed in January due to the company being put into receivership – had been unsuccessful.

2. #RIVALRY Ryanair has lost its bid for Aer Lingus – but said it will appeal the decision. The EU Commission told the budget airline – which said it believes it did not get a fair hearing in relation to the takeover bid – that it intended to block its offer due to competition concerns.

3. #CHARGED A 20-year old man has been charged in connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old at the Memorial Park in Dublin last month. He is to appear before the Courts of Criminal Justice later today. The victim was treated at St James’ Hospital for serious injuries.

4. #OVERWEIGHT A new report says that parents are misjudging their children’s weight, with 54 per cent thinking that their overweight children’s weight is ‘about right for their height’. Seventy five per cent of parents of overweight teenagers thought their teen’s weight was ‘fine’. Safefood has recommended that assessing children’s weight should be viewed in the same way as hearing or sight tests.

5. #BUDGET 2014 The Government has not yet decided how to spend the €1 billion promissory note windfall, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said today. He told the Dáil that it is “too early to predict” how the terms of Budget 2014 will be influenced by last week’s scrapping of the promissory notes due to the liquidation of the IBRC. The deal will reduce the government deficit by about €1 billion next year.

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