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

• A Waterford guesthouse owner has been awarded €70,000 by the High Court after being defamed by a comedian in an RTÉ radio sketch, which he says implied his establishment was a brothel.
• Eight out of 91 European banks have failed stress tests that project how they would fare in another recession, and 16 more barely passed, Europe’s banking regulator has announced. The three Irish banks that were assessed – Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland and Irish Life & Permanent- all passed.
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny has announced that there will be 10,000 new jobs created at the IFSC in Dublin over the next five years. He also announced the creation of 145 new jobs at a firm producing wind turbines in Athenry, Co Galway, over the next three years.
• The National Asset Management Agency (Nama) has decided not to acquire €1.4 billion in loans on the assets of the property developer Paddy McKillen – saying the loans were no longer “deemed material” in the way they had been in December 2009.
• In response to feedback from users, Google has announced that it will soon offer users on its new social networking site – Google Plus – the choice to keep their gender hidden from others.

Those yearning to capture a laid-back, California style queued from the early hours of this morning outside Dundrum’s new Hollister store, which opened its doors for the first time today.

Pictured are Hollister surf Dudes James Murphy (right) and Mark Toal Lennon with (LtoR) Angela Mulhern, Tia Cafolla and Sean O’Flanagan as they rush into the new Hollister Store in Dundrum Town Centre. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland.

• The Transgender Equality Network has said that recommendations for a new piece of legislation will force people who are married to make a choice between gender recognition and their relationship.
• The PSNI has launched a renewed appeal for information about a vicious sectarian attack in Derry five years ago that left a young man in a vegetative state.
• Don’t forget to check out the Week in Photos - featuring mud festivals, swimming with bulls, and the God-given right to wear a colander on your head…
• After a week of Rupert et al hitting the headlines, we take a look at who’s who in the Murdoch media dynasty…
• A group of builders and architects have faithfully recreated the cartoon house from the Disney movie “Up” – right down to the mural above the fireplace…talking dog not included.

Have you ever wanted to know what the world would look like from the inside of a guitar? Of course you have. Well here’s your answer:

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