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

1. #BANKING INQUIRY: Yes, there is going to be one, the government announced today. But there are some key issues that faces the inquiry team before they even start…

2. JOBS?: The Live Register showed another drop in unemployment figures for April but Taoiseach Enda Kenny, although upbeat about his pet project Pathways to Work, is worried about continuing “welfare dependency”.

3. #SHARP EDGE: Nineteen-year-old Jordan Buckley, of Kells Road, Crumlin, is charged with possession of a sword at Leinster House yesterday – a court heard today that he had “no target in mind”.

4. #NOT HAPPY: The director of the Insolvency Service had a go at Bank of Ireland today for opposing debt writedown arrangements with struggling customers. Meanwhile, Central Bank chief Patrick Honohan warned that we have to stick to austerity – or lose any chance of economic recovery.

5. #ET TU? Was Martin Callinan “effectively sacked” from his job as Garda Commissioner “on a political whim”? Garda Representative Association head PJ Stone thinks so.

And farewell to Bob Hoskins, who passed away today, aged 71: