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

• Ireland is finally going to publish the sale prices of residential properties for the first time. Alan Shatter announced the move today, saying it will bring much-needed transparency to the property market.

• The president of the European Central Bank has said it is of the ‘utmost importance‘ that Ireland continues to pay back its €3 billion promissory notes each year.

• Bad day for jobs: O2 has announced that 120 jobs are to go in Ireland…

• … while Yahoo is cutting 2,000 jobs from its workforce (but won’t say whether jobs will be going in Ireland).

• A retired pharmacist killed himself in an Athens square this morning – and left a note linking his suicide with the country’s financial crisis.

• Brendan Howlin has announced the details of the major plan to revamp the National Lottery licence.

• The European Commission says it won’t strip former commissioner Pádraig Flynn of his European pension unless he is convicted of an offence by a court.

(Michael Addis from Blackrock kite surfing in Dublin Bay today. Photo: Justin Farrelly)

• Tests on a flock of pheasants in Cork have shown that the bird flu which infected the animals has not spread. Phew.

• Staff at Game stores around the country remain in limbo as the sit-in enters the second week.

• Feeling good? Got a smile on your face? Ireland has come 10th in the UN’s first ever World Happiness Report.

• The Irish Naval Service has detained a Spanish fishing vessel off the coast of Clare over an alleged breach of fishing regulations.

• The number of people signing onto the Live Register fell by 3,000 in March with the unemployment rate falling marginally to 14.3 per cent

• Going to be driving over the bank holiday weekend? The Gardaí have got some advice for you.

• Has this government minister been hitting the fake tan?

• The things people do for a cool Facebook status is slightly worrying. Warning: don’t try this at home.

• Having covered much of the outdoors, Google Street View is now turning its attention indoors – and is looking to map the White House to allow people to tour it virtually:

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