EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five stories you really should check out by 5pm.

1. #COURTS: Commercial Court judge Peter Kelly has refused to grant an extension into the State’s official probe into the affairs of Anglo Irish Bank, and has instead adjourned the matter until the end of July.

2. #GOOD NEWS: The EU’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rhen has said that Ireland should get a cut in its bailout interest rate. He told a press conference in Strasbourg that, in his view, “the focus of the interest rate should be less related to so-called moral hazard, and essentially related to debt sustainability”.

3. #DÁIL ÉIREANN: Richard Boyd-Barrett has become the first TD  of the 31st Dáil to be asked to leave the chamber by Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett. The People Before Profit TD was asked to leave after refusing to withdraw a remark made off-microphone about the Ceann Comhairle’s handling of Dáil procedures.

4. #JAPAN: As a result of Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis, Prime Minister Naoto Kan has announced that the county needs to “start from scratch” and embrace renewable sources of energy - such as solar, wind and biomass power – as well as focusing more on conservation. He said that previously announced plans to build new nuclear plants would now be scrapped.

5. #CLINTONGATE: An Orthodox Jewish newspaper has apologised to the White House for digitally removing the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from a photograph in which Barack Obama’s staff watched the fatal raid on Osama bin Laden. Brooklyn newspaper Di Tzeitung said that it had a “long standing editorial policy” of not printing pictures of women, but had not read the fine print accompanying the official photograph that forbade any manipulation of the image.