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

• A new opinion poll out this evening shows Fianna Fáil is now the second most popular party in the country, while Labour has fallen into fourth place. Sinn Féin dropped three points to 16 per cent in the Sunday Business Post/Red C poll.
• At least 12 branches of Ulster Bank will open tomorrow morning as the bank continues to deal with the fallout from its major ongoing technical problem.
• Plans by Greyhound to increase bin charges in Dublin from next week have been described as a ‘farce’.
• The funeral of James Nolan will be held in Blessington on Monday.
• Random fact of the day: Spain has never beat France in a competitive match. Could that all change tonight? The third quarter-final of the  European Championships kicked off at 7.45pm and Ben Blake is liveblogging all the action.
• Uh-oh. Turkey has vowed to take ‘necessary’ action after one of its warplanes was shot down by Syria.
• What is the most expensive country in the EU for cigarettes and alcohol? You’re (probably) living in it.
• Did you see today’s Google Doodle in honour of Alan Turing? Here’s how to solve it.
• The results of Egypt’s presidential election are expected to be revealed tomorrow.
• There’s been some bad flooding and heavy rainfall in parts of Northern Ireland and Britain.

No, it’s not an out-take from an old episode of Lost; it’s actually a human-operated polar bear puppet run by Greenpeace walking around a park in Madrid to raise awareness about threats to the Arctic. (Photo: AP Photo/Alberto Di Lolli)

• Jimmy Carr took a LOT of slagging about his tax affairs on 8 out of 10 Cats last night.
• Speaking of Jimmy Carr: exactly how much tax did he pay? And how many votes did the government lose this week? It’s the week in numbers.
• Calorie counts on menus? Not in my restaurant, writes Michelin-starred chef Oliver Dunne of Bon Appetit in Malahide in tonight’s column.
• Clive James isn’t happy about media reports which suggested that he was near death.
• The New York Times has done a major investigation into how people who work in Apple stores in the US aren’t paid a lot.
• Macedonia and Greece have been fighting for 20 years over the name ‘Macedonia’ – but an end could (possibly) be in sight.
• Bad news for Radiohead fans who were expecting to see them play over the next two weeks.
• Got a spare €23 million and a penchant for houses that look like they came from a Tommy Hilfiger ad? This gaff, once owned by Katharine Hepburn, could be the one for you.
• And finally, this video taken by a kid hanging out underwater in a swimming pool is lovely, albeit slightly surreal.

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