EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you an essential roundup of the day’s big stories – plus any other bits and pieces you may have missed…

• A 71-year-old man has been shot dead in Mayo this afternoon. The man died of his injuries after being taken to hospital. Another man in his early 30s has been arrested.
• It’s been a big day for European elections. Francois Hollande has ousted Nicolas Sarkozy from the French presidency, while in Greece, a far-right party looks set to enter parliament as mainstream groups jostle for support.
• Have you seen this tortoise? A 100-year-old pet has done a runner from a home in Rathgar, south Dublin – and his owners say he’s likely to be in the sunshine somewhere.
• Tensions are being stoked in the fiscal treaty referendum campaign – with Gerry Adams dismissing Fianna Fáil as “impotent”.
• Three men have been arrested and a major search launched after a man was seen entering a river at Kilrea, Co Derry. A body has been recovered from the river this afternoon.
• Did you see the ‘super moon’ last night? Check out our gallery of how it appeared over Ireland and around the world.
• “They were absolutely stoned out of their minds.” Who said it? Find out in our Week in Quotes…

Workers try to splice the shreds of bank notes worth 50,000 yuan (about €6,000) torn up by a woman at a branch of Bank of China in Chengdu, Sichuan. It took six hours for 12 clerks to successfully splice one complete 100-yuan bank note.  (Photo by Nie Wu/ChinaFotoPress)

• The first iPhone hacker, how to find great restaurants, and the world as seen by the super-rich: enjoy our Sitdown Sunday collection of the week’s best writing.
• Iran is taking on a new enemy – the dastardly Google Maps. Here’s the full story.
• The Vita Cortex workers have revealed how they held on for 139 days in a sit-in that attracted global attention. Read it here on TheJournal.ie.
• Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has called for a full independent inquiry into the abuse carried out by Fr Brendan Smyth, saying that only with such an investigation will the “full story” be revealed.
• Want to ruin your chances in a job interview? Here are 24 surefire ways, based on real-life experiences.
• The Occupy protesters attempted to set up another encampment outside the Dáil last night, but were swiftly removed by gardaí.
• The man who’s leaving the internet, a lion gets its dinner mixed up, and Mark Zuckerberg’s heartfelt stare? It must be the Weird Wide Web – our week in online oddities.
• Ink to make you think? Older people can have tattoos too, you know – and here’s a gallery of them.
• And finally: Meet Shanthi, the elephant that plays the harmonica. Yes, the harmonica.

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