EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of some of the news headlines you may have missed – and the intriguing little tidbits you might like to see…

The Obama visit:

• “Is feidir linn” was a slogan on t-shirts to promote President Barack Obama’s one-day visit to Ireland – but by the end of the evening it had become a battle cry when he included it in a rousing speech at College Green, Dublin.  The masses who flocked to see the US President and his wife Michelle were kept entertained by Irish musicians, sportstars and actors until the couple returned from their trip to ….
• …Moneygall. Barack Obama visited the hometown of his great-great-great grandfather Falmouth Kearney, got a taste for Guinness and went on an unscheduled meet-and-greet after enduring a windy helicopter ride from an earlier meeting in….
• …Dublin. The Obamas met first with President Mary McAleese at the Aras, and then with Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who discussed some serious issues and then presented Barack Obama with a hurley.
• In other Obama news, Taoiseach Kenny gave a book of short stories to President Obama for his daughters Malia and Sasha – but have a look at the other presents (diamonds, dolls, DVDs) that the girls have received from dignitaries.
• The US media reported that Obama’s visit was helping him to find his “inner Irishman”.
• You can see how the visit went IN PICTURES.
• This is how TWITTER saw it.
• Our TIMELINE of what happened when…
• And what the irrepressible (Not) Cardinal Brady saw while he was LIVEBLOGGIN backstage at Obama’s College Green gig. Bad Cardinal.

Oh yes, and that awful moment when it looked like the US Presidential car wouldn’t make it out of the US Embassy after lunch. *Crunch*

Elsewhere:

• A British MP has used his parliamentary privilege in the London House of Commons to out Ryan Giggs as the Premiership footballer who has been the subject of a superinjunction over an alleged affair.
• An inquiry into the murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson has found that there was no collusion between state agencies and loyalists involved in her murder.
• The Russian Ambassador to Ireland, Mikhail Timoshkin, has died suddenly here but the circumstances of his death are not yet clear.
• Television and radio professional Yvonne Nolan has been writing about bad customer service. She writes: “The thing about ‘Customer Care’, wherever it’s given that name, is that it’s there to frustrate you, piss you off and make you and your complaint go away”. Grrr – we hear you, Yvonne.

We don’t know about you, but the day has left us in a pretty good mood here in TheJournal.ie. A slam-dunk sort of mood, in fact…