EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you up to speed with the five things you should know as you head out the door.

1. #BELFAST Police in Belfast were contacted with reports of a gun pointing out the window of a building on Donegall Street earlier today. The street was closed off for around half an hour. During a search of the building in question, three replica firearms were found in one room. An investigation is underway.

2. #DEAN FITZPATRICK The funeral of Dean Fitzpatrick (23) took place in Dublin today, at the Holy Trinity church in Donaghmede. Fr Eoin McCrystal said Dean “was a young man with so much of life ahead of him”. Dean, whose sister Amy went missing aged 15 in Spain five years ago, died after suffering stab wounds on 26 May.

3. #INVESTIGATION The University of Limerick is to investigate the role that students may have played in the death of a dog that was allegedly lured to its death in a road traffic accident. The university said any act of cruelty to animals would lead to disciplinary procedures. The investigation follows a report in the Limerick Leader newspaper about the alleged incident in Castletroy.

4. #BANK The British Government is reportedly considering a plan which would see it asking the Irish Government to buy Ulster Bank. The bank is currently owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Reports say the UK’s equivalent to the Department of Finance has called for RBS to be split into a ‘good bank’ and ‘bad bank’ – or for Ulster Bank to be separated from the rest of the RBS group, possibly through a sale to the Irish government.

5. #WEATHER This spring was one of the coldest on record, Met Éireann said today. All three months of the season reported below-average temperatures, with March reporting the coldest conditions. Sunshine totals were below average everywhere except Shannon Airport.