Belly of the beast: A ship-builder in Karachi, Pakistan today. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

THIS IS EVERYTHING you need to know before the end of the day…

THINGS WE LEARNED

#EUR FECKED: In just one day, Cyprus confirmed it will ask for an EU bailout, Greece’s finance minister resigned after just five days in the job and Spain formally requested a €100bn rescue loan. Alright then.

#PUBLIC SECTOR: Transport, Tourism and Sport Minister Leo Varadkar gave public sector workers a hell of a land when he told Newstalk radio that pay increases worth €200m should be deferred for a year.

#MURDER: Two men have been arrested following the death of journalist Eugene Moloney, who was attacked on Camden Street in Dublin early on Sunday morning.

#GREMLINS: The Central Bank told Ulster Bank this evening to get their ‘technical issues’ under control. Business owner and Ulster Bank customer George Mordaunt told TheJournal.ie today that he had to cancel some sales because he couldn’t access cash for stock.

#PSYCHIC WAYNE: Fresh from a row on Twitter with stage psychic Keith Barry, TV psychic Wayne Isaacs has been speaking to TheJournal.ie about why images used to promote other psychics on his call-in infomercial appear to come from stock photo collections. TV3, on which the infomercial shows, distanced itself from the content of Psychic Readings Live.

THINGS WE LOVED

• If you don’t want to be distracted from Euro2012 and Wimbledon (which started today), don’t look at this. It is the Guardian’s London 2012 Olympics data centre – and it is stats, graph and pretty pic heaven.
• These are the most stunning macro photos we have seen all day – close-ups of insect eyes by Shikhei Goh on thisiscolossal.com. They are bizarrely beautiful.
• Andrew Montague ended his term as Lord Mayor of Dublin today with the traditional Casting the Spear ceremony. It looked like this:

via Conor McCabe Photography

Reader Dan O’Neill couldn’t resist beginning a meme:

THINGS WE SHARED

• This anti-smoking promo video has received 1 million hits in five days. Simple but clearly effective:

via Eyad Alasibi/Youtube

• This story from Mashable.com – the 5 ways small businesses get social media wrong – has been trending on… social media. Naturally.

• Willow Smith, hair-whipper and girl child of Jada Pinkett and Will Smith, has posted a picture of herself online with what looks like a tongue piercing. Though it appears from her friend’s account that the piercing is a fake, why is this going viral on every showbiz website in the US? Because she is 11 years of age. Too young? You tell us:

via Official Willow/Webstagram

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