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

1. #ALAN SHATTER: The Minister for Justice has criticised a newspaper for running a story saying that he refused to reveal whether he met with Tipperary North TD Michael Lowry. Alan Shatter said the idea of ‘blacklisting’ TDs is ‘a slippery slope’ and compared the situation to the McCarthy-era politics of 1950s America.

2. #CATHOLICISM: Almost 90 per cent of Irish Catholics say priests should be allowed to marry and 77 per cent say they are in favour of women being ordained as priests, a major new survey has found. Three quarters of Irish Catholics said in the survey for the Association of Catholic Priests that the Church’s teachings on sexuality are irrelevant to their lives.

3. #CONSUMERS: Prices in Ireland rose by 2.2 per cent in the year to March according to new data published by the CSO. Education, transport, alcohol and tobacco all rose significantly while household furnishings and clothing both saw drops in prices.

4. #HOUSEHOLD CHARGE: Environment Minister Phil Hogan was jeered by a group of anti-household charge protesters at an event in Carlow last night. A local councillor has described the behaviour of the protesters as “absolutely scurrilous”.

5. #SAMANTHA BRICK: Samantha Brick, the journalist who kicked off an online storm over a column she wrote about the difficulties of being an attractive woman, is to appear on RTE’s Late Late Show tomorrow evening. Brick is expected to discuss her controversial column with host Ryan Tubridy, after it received more than 1.5 million hits on the day it was published on the Daily Mail website.