Lightning over the Shaktar stadium in Ukraine as the hosts' Euro 2012 clash with France is briefly suspended earlier this evening.
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EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of all the day’s main news as well as the bits and pieces that you may have missed.
- The Michaela McAreavey murder trial has been shown footage from CCTV from the hotel where the Tyrone woman was murdered last year. The issue of the footage has been one of the most contentious of the trial so far.
- Ahead of a big mass at Corke Park this weekend to mark the end of the International Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal Seán Brady has made an apology to victims of clerical sex abuse while saying nothing about his role in the controversial investigation of the paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.
- This weekend will also likely see more significant developments in the eurozone as Greece holds its second election in just over a month with the result likely to have far reaching implications on the markets on Monday but what would a possible eurozone exit by the Greeks look like?
- The IMF has delivered it latest review of Ireland’s bailout programme. Its largely positive which is why they handed over €1.4 billion in loans earlier this week. Here’s 11 things we have learned from the latest report.
- Today is International Justice Day for cleaners. What’s that about? Well here’s a quick explainer.
- How about that rain out there today? Not a patch on the downpours in Ukraine a little while ago mind you but heavy nonetheless and there’s a bit more forecast over the weekend but we might have some sun. Hurrah.
- The US is to stop deporting young illegal immigrants who entered the country as children and pose no security threat. Its estimated that it could affect as many as 800,000 people.
The loneliness of an average Premiership footballer? Glenn Whelan contemplates life at a training session in Poland today the day after Ireland’s humiliating Euro 2012 defeat to Spain in Gdansk last night. Plenty of reaction to that over on TheScore.ie’s microsite.
- But speaking of all that, Roy Keane’s biographer Eamon Dunphy has hit out at the former Republic of Ireland captain claiming that he has “lost the plot” in criticising fans for their passionate singing even after Trap’s side had been well and truly beaten.
- Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen the Angela Merkel Apres Match skit post last night’s game then you really should, you scoop monkeys.
- China is to send its first woman into space this Saturday. Lui Yang has the honour of that but we wanted to know who you would send into orbit. Suggestions included: Jedward, Angela Merkel, Twink, and Joe Higgins.
- Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin, her of fornication fame, has said that there should be a dress code in the Dáil, believing that Mick Wallace’s t-shirts and Richard Boyd-Barrett’s jeans have no place in the “solemn” chamber.
- Gardaà have warned the public to be wary of a computer virus which displays a police logo and asks users to pay a fine. Here’s what you should be looking out for.
- So how did the US Army, one of the most fearsome fighting forces in the world, celebrate its 237th birthday? A cupcake tank of course.
- Finally, what does a border collie do when he has no sheep to round up? Well as this insightful report from ITN News shows us, he rounds up  tigers:
YouTube: ITN News
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