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

• The Finance Minister Michael Noonan has announced plans to try to burn senior bondholders at Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide. He says the banks are “warehouses of debt” and says Ireland will seek to impose significant losses on the bondholders.
• Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou has offered to step down in order to allow the formation of a coalition government, providing the new government supports a new bailout deal. Earlier Athens hosted some violent scenes as thousands marched against austerity measures. TheJournal.ie caught up with some Irish people living in Athens to get a feel for what it’s like there.
• Locals have expressed anger at a decision to close the 24-hour A&E department at St. Columcille’s hospital in Loughlinstown. Cases will instead be sent to St. Vincent’s.
• Workers at Johnson & Johnson in Cashel were told today that they’ll be out a job by the end of the year, after the company announced its decision to close a factory in the Tipperary town. 133 people are to lose their jobs as a result.
• DCU has issued an apology after flooding the inboxes of businesses and employers with unwanted emails. The university sent an email out to employers of its graduates, asking them to fill out a survey. However it backfired when replies were sent to everyone on the list and their email addresses were exposed.
• Gardaí could be close to solving the cold case of the murder of RTÉ employee Charles Self in 1982. Self was a well-known figure in the Dublin gay community and was stabbed to death. Gardaí say forensic evidence could lead to his killer.
• Women’s Aid has found that technology like mobile phones and social networking sites is being used to monitor and control women in abusive relationships. The groups says that some women were bombarded with texts or stalked on sites like Facebook.
• In the US, the creator of a deliberately offensive ad which portrays a Democratic congressional candidate as a stripper who is ordered to “give me your cash, bitch so we can shoot up the streets” by a gangster, has refused to apologise. The ad has been made by the conservative group Turn Right USA and the filmmaker behind it Ladd Ehlinger has told critics that they can “suck it”. Watch the ad here.
• Bruce Springsteen says the condition of his saxophonist Clarence Clemens is improving after he suffered a stroke at the weekend. NME reports that Springsteen says that Clemens, who has played with the E Street Band for almost 40 years, will need a lot of care “to achieve his potential once again”.
• And finally there was almost egg on the faces of the executives of Bank of Ireland earlier one of the bank’s shareholders fired a couple of eggs in the direction of Pat Molloy and CEO Richie Boucher at the BOI AGM. Gary Keogh’s aim was a bit off and he missed, but by the look of his fellow shareholders, he wasn’t the only one feeling a bit miffed…