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.

• Former MEP and Eurovision winner Dana Rosemary Scallon has announced her intention to run for President of Ireland. At a press conference in Dublin earlier today, she said she is seeking a nomination to enter the race as an independent candidate.
• Travellers at the Dale Farm site in Essex have won a last minute court injunction delaying their planned eviction. A restraining order has been granted to keep out bailiffs, whose earlier attempts to enter the site were opposed by residents and campaigners.
• Some of Ireland’s numerous ghost estates could be used for social housing in the future if Minister Willie Penrose’s ideas come to fruition. He says it is a priority for 2012.
• Gardaí have issued an appeal for information about 41-year-old Kelly Jones, a US holidaymaker who has been missing from Glencolumbkille in Donegal since around 11am on Saturday.
• In his latest column for TheJournal.ie, former trader Nick Leeson says that a Greek crisis might not be “all bad” for Ireland.
• Twin girls born with the tops of their heads joined together have been separated in a rare and risky series of operations at a London children’s hospital.
• There has been a fall in the number of teenagers giving birth in Ireland, as well as a decline in the amount of women travelling to the UK and Netherlands for abortions, says the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme.
• The Kids are Back in Town: Ahead of their annual stint on the Late Late Toy Show, all 800 Billie Barry Stage School students will descend on the Gaiety Theatre in November for a show called ‘The Time of Our Lives’.
• It was the turn of America’s television stars to hit the red carpet last night for this year’s Emmy Awards. Check out the red fishtail dresses and other fashions here, while see who was #winning and who was #losing here.
• Earlier, we asked our readers to come up with a caption for this photo of Georgia Salpa, Philomena Lynott and Michéal O Muircheartaigh, which was taken at the launch of ESB Electric Ireland’s Positive Ageing Week.

And the winner is…Fitszpatrick with, “Micheál: Can I borrow your geansaí love, ’tis terrible fuar…Not you Thin Lizzy.”

• Following Australia’s lead, the UK is considering the possibility of gender neutral passports.
• (Not) Cardinal Sean Brady gives us a play-by-play of his annual trip to Knock, including how he dealt with a bus-full of priests arriving to the car park at the same time as a bunch of nuns.
• Bucking the trend: Demand for sperm from red-headed men is falling in most countries as the world’s largest sperm bank reveals that supply is outstripping demand, except in Ireland, where it apparently sells “like hot cakes”.
• Dublin centre-back Ger Brennan looks like Mr. Potatohead, the Boys in Blue have the “poshest full back line in the world” and manager Pat Gilroy’s nickname is “Spiderlegs”  – that is according to a song penned by this year’s All-Ireland football champions and sang by goal-scoring hero Kevin McManamon at tonight’s homecoming celebrations at a packed Merrion Square:

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