EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of the day’s main news – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed…

• A senior economist at one of the world’s biggest banks says Ireland should negotiate a standby second bailout, in case it cannot return to the open bond markets when the first deal runs out. Willem Buiter of Citigroup also thinks the EU should let Ireland cut the interest rate on its promissory notes.
• Gardaí in Waterford are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an 83-year-old woman at a Co Waterford nursing home earlier today. A 46-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned at Waterford Garda Station.
• Priests in the Catholic diocese of Cashel and Emly have been asked to contribute between €50 and €60 per month to a diocesan fund which pays for the costs of child protection there.
• More not-so-good news: the cost of getting an NCT for your car is to rise by 10 per cent next month.
• A teachers’ union has played down reports that the Revenue Commissioners have launched a probe into teachers’ income for giving grinds.
• Labour TD Michael McCarthy says university overspending has reached a ‘worrying’ level – after it emerged that colleges spent over €377,000 on taxis during 2011.
• Trim in Co Meath is Ireland’s cleanest town, according to a new nationwide survey, while areas of Cork and Dublin are among the country’s dirtiest.
• A Polish military prosecutor has shot himself during a break in a press conference at which he denied army collusion in covering up the death of the former president Lech Kaczynski. Somehow, Mikolaj Przybyl survived his injuries.
• Netflix has launched in Ireland, offering unlimited viewing of its online film and TV database for €6.99 per month. We’ve been having a look at how it compares with alternative offerings.
• Police in the UK have sneaked a ‘fake bomb’ into London’s Olympic Park, just 200 days before the games get underway. The news overshadowed a meeting of David Cameron’s cabinet at the park today.

Water, water everywhere… and plenty a drop to drink, but not at the prices we’re used to. Junior health minister Roisin Shortall says the government is looking at a minimum price for alcohol. (Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)