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.

• John McAreavey, the husband of Michaela McAreavey, gave evidence at the trial of the two men accused of killing the Tyrone woman in January 2011 today, describing in harrowing detail the moments he realised his wife was dead.
• The European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, has said that the result of Ireland’s Fiscal Compact referendumis not a bargaining chip for securing a deal on the country’s bank debt.
• Meanwhile Enda Kenny faced tough questioning in the Dáil today about conversations with German chancellor Angela Merkel and whether they discussed the bank debt issue.
• Some bad news on the jobs front today: Pfizer confirmed that 177 jobs are to go at its plants in Cork over the next year, Atlantic Homecare has announced the closure of five stores and Bus Eireann has revealed cost-cutting measures that could affect its employees.
• Leaving and junior certificate students across the country started their exams today with English Paper 1 and Home Economics on the agenda for the leaving certs while the junior certs had both English papers. Any advice for the poor souls?
• An earthquake stuck off the coast of Mayo this morning with data from the British Geological Survey indicating it was the strongest quake ever recorded in the west of Ireland, measuring in at magnitude 4.0.
• The Olympic torch made a historic visit to Dublin today as its journey to the Olympic Games in London next month continued. There were plenty of well-known personalities involved including this fella. Can you tell who it?

Soccer legend Paul McGrath of course, with no sign of those knees acting up as he crossed the Samuel Beckett Bridge with the torch this morning. Photo: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

• The secretary general of the Department of Finance, John Moran, will appear before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee tomorrow to discuss the details of two leaked reports into THAT €3.6 billion accounting error by the Department which was discovered last year.
• Are you on LinkedIn? If so you might want to change your password after 6.5 million passwords were apparently leaked online.
• The Press Ombudsman has upheld a complaint by the family of Kate Fitzgerald about an Irish Times statement regarding the woman and an article in which she described her history and experience of depression.
• Twitter has a new bird. See if you can spot the difference.
• If you look up to the sky tonight in Ireland at around 11.16pm you should be able to see the International Space Station.
• A year on from the UN Committee Against Torture’s damning report about the State’s treatment of women who were incarcerated in the Magdalene Laundries, a survivor has written about her experiences for TheJournal.ie.
• It’s 68 years since the D-Day landings in which the Allies invaded German-occupied France in a move that would eventually bring about the end of World War II. Here’s some photos from the archive and here’s some reflections from the real heroes of the 101st Airborne at the end of the Band of Brothers TV series:

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