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EVERY WEEKDAY evening, TheJournal.ie brings you five things you should know at 5pm.

1. #RIP: An Irish teenager has died after being attacked and seriously injured by a bull during a bull-running event in Spain earlier this week.

2. #SOLD: Fintrax Group Holdings, a financial payments company based in Galway, has been sold to the company’s management team for €170 million in a deal funded by a private equity fund.

3. #MOORS MURDERS: Greater Manchester Police are investigating the possibility that a letter written by convicted child killer Ian Brady to the mother of one of his victims could provide information about the location of the child’s remains. Here’s a timeline of the Moors Murders in the early 1960s.

4. #PUSSY RIOT: Three members of a Russian punk band have been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred. During a protest performance in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour cathedral in February, the band appealed to Saint Maria to drive politician Vladimir Putin away.

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    Aug 17th 2012, 4:58 PM

    Why did somebody glue a starfish to that seagull’s beak?

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    Aug 17th 2012, 6:35 PM

    PATRICK!!

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    Aug 17th 2012, 5:27 PM

    A seagull with a propeller how bad are things in the Irish air force

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    Aug 17th 2012, 5:53 PM

    Ninja starfish attacks seagull………

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    Aug 17th 2012, 7:18 PM

    Starfish gives life saving CPR to seagull

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    Aug 17th 2012, 11:45 PM

    Hey look, gang. I got me a white bird!!

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    Aug 17th 2012, 5:17 PM

    hmm,im a little slow at the best of times,what typo?

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