Every afternoon TheJournal.ie brings you 5 things you really need to know by 5pm.

1. #HEAVE: Fianna Fáil TD and former Chief Whip Tom Kitt has called for a change the party’s leadership.

Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Kitt said that Fianna Fáil parliamentary party should meet to consider the ongoing controversy over Cowen’s leadership.

2. #BOND MARKETS: After opening at 6.293% this morning, bond yields rose to a record 6.5% during the day.

Rumours of a leadership challenge within Fianna Fáil have been blamed for the rise, as uncertainty about the country’s leadership grows.

3. #IRISH HOTELS: The Four Seasons hotel in Dublin 4 has been put up for sale after posting losses of €2m for the last year.

The hotel is owned by the Nollaig Partnership, an 18-member group that borrowed €50m from Anglo Irish Bank. The sale is expected to fetch less than the loan secured with Anglo, however, meaning that the shareholders stand to lose their entire stake.

4. #LOCKERBIE: The father of a woman who died in the bombing of the Pan AM 103 flight over Lockerbie has met with only person to ever be convicted of the atrocity, Abdelbasset al-Megrahi, in Libya.

Dr Jim Swire, who has met Megrahi before, believes that he had no involvement in the attack – which claimed the lives of 270 people in 1988.

5. #USA: A man in Kentucky, USA, has claimed that he was temporarily insane – as a result of a caffeine overdose - when he strangled his wife to death.

The prosecution for Woody Will Smith, 33, say that in the days before killing of Amanda Hornsy-Smith, 28, in May 2009, Smith had consumed excessive caffeine from energy drinks and diet pills, which rendered him temporarily insane.