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

1. #RTÉ: An external audit into a potential financial issue at RTÉ has found the company publicly understated Ryan Tubridy’s earnings since 2017.

2. #OCEANGATE: Additional help is being sent to find the missing Titan submersible with just hours of oxygen thought to be left for those onboard.

3. #SECURITY: Protesters halted the start of the consultative forum on international security policy in Cork, shouting anti-NATO slogans during Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s opening speech.

4. #PRICES: Ireland is not a “basket case”, according to Finance Michael McGrath, who hit back against assertions made by Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty that people are being “fleeced by the highest prices in Europe”.

5. #CHILD WELFARE: Ireland’s health standards watchdog is considering the contents of a report published today into sexual exploitation of teenagers living in residential care centres.

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