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

The Royal Visit:

• The great and the good from both sides of the Irish divide are in Dublin Castle this evening for a State dinner in honour of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Photos later, but in the meantime, here’s their menu.
• One person who won’t be at the dinner is Gerry Adams, who told Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dail that his right not to attend events should be respected.
• Despite some small protests again today near locations visited by the Queen, your reaction on Twitter and the majority of press photographs have recorded pride and satisfaction in how the visit is turning out.
• The Queen’s made a historic visit to Croke Park – the site of a brutal massacre in 1920 in which the British Army killed 14 people. GAA president Christy Cooney said the visit “honoured the association”. Here’s a gallery from the occasion.
• And here’s what the world’s media have been making of it.

In other news today…

• Patricia Quinn, wife of businessman Sean Quinn, and the couple’s children are suing Anglo Irish Bank for what they allege were negligent business practices that saw the Quinn Group lose its assets.
• Great news for the parents of little Liam Heffernan who is making an “awesome” recovery from pioneering brain surgery in New York.
• The importance of saying sorry came into focus today… as United Airlines had to apologise for reusing flight numbers 93 and 175 accidentally – those were the numbers of flights hijacked by terrorists on 9/11.
• The US government is taking a lawsuit against Starbucks after the company fired a barista after three days. Her offence? She asked for a stool or stepladder to stand on as she is a dwarf.
• Hero of the day – Garda Superintendent Tony Lundon who recorded a video in the Portugese language to try and help football fans find their way to the Aviva stadium for tonight’s Europa League tie. It’s in a very, very obvious Irish accent and the editing’s a bit dodge but, hell, he gave it a serious shot: