EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of the day’s main news – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed…

• A number of major financial institutions have agreed to write off large sums of Greece’s national debt, potentially paving the way for the country to receive its second bailout worth €130billion.
• Ireland is currently spending €3,879 a year more for every resident than it raises in taxes. That’s according to calculations by Fine Gael TD Noel Harrington.
• Bord na Móna workers have voted “overwhelmingly” to take industrial action in a dispute over a pay increase.
• Innovation minister Seán Sherlock has opened an online consultation process for Ireland’s upcoming review of copyright law. The minister was criticised recently for not allowing proper debate on a tightening of online copyright controls.
• There will be no monthly payment option for motor tax, according to environment minister Phil Hogan, who confirmed that the Government will continue to levy a surcharge on three- and six-month tax discs.
• A vampire-inspired Eurovision song? Surely it’s a shoe-in for success – which is perhaps why this Irish songwriter has given it to Romania, fearing the Jedward juggernaut. (Jeddernaut?) Watch and listen here.
• Are you confused about the new version of Windows? What exactly is it? We’ve got everything you need to know.

Two seven-week-old Java leopards at the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin (Michael Sohn/AP/Press Association Images)

• A total of 145  new jobs were announced today, with 110 at a technology firm in Galway and Dublin and 35 at Western Union.
• Meanwhile, it’s emerged that more than 12,000 people attended the Working Abroad Expo held over the weekend at Dublin’s RDS, with 250 jobs reportedly offered. Organisers were forced to close the doors early yesterday as the crowds were so large.
• Mum-of-one Ann Cronin has written for TheJournal.ie about how she attended the event hoping for opportunities abroad, but found a window on today’s Ireland – and the view wasn’t pleasant.
• The outcome of the Russian presidential election won by Vladimir Putin was “never in doubt”, according to an Irish TD who observed the vote. Eoghan Murphy toldTheJournal.ie about the election arrangements that ensured Putin’s victory.
• Where are all the attractive men? Traveler’s Digest has published a list of the top ten cities for fine-lookin’ fellas.
• A fire broke out today at the well-known Bang restaurant in Dublin, formerly owned by socialite brothers Simon and Christian Stokes. We’ve got pictures of the scenes as firefighters battled the blaze.
• Protesters gathered outside the Dáil today in support of… cats. They even brought costumes.
• As ever, we’ve been tackling the big* questions that really matter to you. Today: How do you butter your toast? *small
• And finally: Want to see a dog playing Veggie Samurai on the iPad? Of course you do:

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