EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of all the day’s news as well as the bits and pieces that you may have missed.

• Justice Susan Gageby Denham is to become Ireland’s first female Chief Justice, after a government decision this morning. Denham will later be officially appointed by the President, Mary McAleese.
• The terms and conditions of employment at Superquinn is to stay the same under new owner Musgrave, it has been revealed. However the Small Firms Association has raised concerns over smaller suppliers – saying that they will still be owed around €25 million after the receivership.
• American Airlines has closed its Dublin office, where 130 people are employed, after 15 years citing significant losses. The work previously undertaken at the office will now be outsourced, the company has said.
• The Minister for Children has published a second progress report on the recommendations arising out of the Ryan Report, saying that “real progress” had been made on many of the recommendations. Frances Fitzgerald noted that the Children First guidelines which were published last week were a key recommendation of the report.
• A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his grandfather in Ardrahan, Co Galway. Gearóid Fahy, from Ardrahan, today pleaded guilty to the murder of 78-year-old Finbar Fahy, admitting that he beat his grandfather over the head eight times with a nail bar in November 2009. Gearóid Fahy mistakenly believed that his grandfather was transferring family land out of his father’s name.
• A man has been arrested in connection with a garda car chase in Athlone earlier today, which took place after a car was spotted travelling in the wrong direction on the Dublin dual-carriageway. Gardaí told TheJournal.ie that after the car crashed at about 1pm this afternoon, the driver took off on foot and was pursued by police.
• News International chiefs Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and former CEO Rebekah Brooks all faced questioning today by the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee in the UK. All three offered apologies over the allegations of phone hacking by the News of the world, with 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch saying that it was “the most humbling day” of his life. Proceedings were briefly suspended when a demonstrator threw a pie at Rupert Murdoch before being dragged away by security (although not before Murdoch’s agile wife Wendi Deng flexed some muscle of her own…)
• Germany’s opposition has offered its support to the country’s chancellor, Angela Merkel over her plans to deal with debt-laden Greece. The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP) said that it would back Merkel in her parliamentary vote to grant a second bailout to Greece this autumn. Earlier today, Merkel said that there will be no “spectacular” deal on the EU’s debt crisis when leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday.
• Ten people were killed when Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession today. The killings brought the death toll in the city of Homs to about 50 people since Saturday, according to a range of activists, human rights groups and witnesses.
• In California, two masked raiders got more than they bargained for during an armed robbery, after they were chased out of the shop by a pet chihuahua. Dauntless little Paco leapt and barked at the raiders – and even stared down the barrel of the gun – before chasing the pair out of the premises.
• The Rubberbandits have taken New York – and the first episode of their MTV adventure can be online.
• There’s been a lot of talk about 3D printers lately but if you’re finding it difficult to visualise just how they work, this video should help…

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