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

1. #PROTEST: The Garda Representative Association has staged a placard protest outside Dáil Eireann against the Croke Park II deal that proposes to cut public sector pay. The GRA says the deal now being voted upon by the trade union movement is “blatantly unfair” and have questioned the Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s judgement for allowing it to be put on the table.

2. #BANKERS: The chief executive of Bank of Ireland received a total pay packet worth €843,000 last year – despite the bank posting a pre-tax loss of over €2.1 billion. Richie Boucher received basic pay of €690,000, with €186,000 contributed to his pension fund and other remuneration (including a company car) worth €34,000. His total salary would have been higher if he had not chosen to waive €67,000 of his pay – the second year in succession that he has done so.

3. #ARREST: Three men in their 20s are being questioned in relation to an arson attack at Scarriff garda station in the early hours of yesterday morning. A car – understood to have belonged to a garda – was set on fire outside the Clare station at about 12.30am on 19 March. Two windows of the building were also damaged in the incident but no-one was injured.

4. #UK BUDGET: The UK is to slash its main rate of corporation tax in two years’ time as it steps up its ambition to encourage foreign investment. The measure was announced as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s 2013 Budget today, and will see the 23 per cent applying to large companies will be cut to 20 per cent by April 2015.

5. #EDUCATION: Equal access data from the Higher Education Authority (HEA) has shown that the greatest increase in those entering third level are from families with jobs that tend to be better paid. Students from 27 third level institutions throughout Ireland responded to the HEA’s equal access survey questionnaire, which found that students of employers, managers, or higher professionals had increased in comparison to children whose parents were less well paid.