Sam Wiseman, 33, from Edinburgh , rides through a sea of red as Giant Poppys shine in the sun at Bamburgh in Northumberland today, as the warm weather continues to bring out wild flowers all over the countryside,  Tuesday June 11, 2013. (Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

HERE ARE THE things we learned, loved and shared today as we round off the day in three easy steps.

THINGS WE LEARNED:

#CHILDREN: The Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said all inspection reports of crèches in Ireland will be published online from next month. Fitzgerald also told the Oireachtas committee on Health and Children said that, from September, any preschool facility hoping to operate in Ireland would have to register with the HSE and receive the executive’s approval before it was permitted to take children into its care.

#G8: President Michael D Higgins has been asked by the Government to give an early signature to new laws which allow it to shut down mobile phone networks if it fears a terrorist threat ahead of next week’s G8 summit in Fermanagh, which would the usual five-day waiting period before signing the new Criminal Justice Bill into law.

#ABORTION: The Catholic Bishops today urged Ireland to ‘Choose life!’ in a statement addressing the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, saying “no individual has the right to destroy life and no State has the right to undermine the right to life”. The Cabinet will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the  Bill, as it was not reached on today’s agenda.

#SECURITY: A major meeting of diplomats from the United States and the European Union will see Brussels demanding assurances that data on European internet users is not collected illegally by American security agencies. Meanwhile, US defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton has said it has fired Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old employee who leaked secret US Internet and phone data surveillance programs to the press.

#NORWAY: Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has renounced an inheritance from his mother to avoid it falling into state coffers and being used to compensate his the families of the people he murdered. The government would have claimed the money to pay damages awarded to the families of his 77 victims by the Oslo court that sentenced Breivik to 21 years in jail in August last year.

This is the yarnbombing surprise project by 3rd & 4th class students in Barnaderg National School, County Galway. “We’ve already surprised the other students & now we’re going to surprise other Galwegians when our bike pops up in a secret location during Bike Week next week.  It was hard work, but it was worth it!” wrote teachers Anne Marie Doyle & Gilleesa Lane.

THINGS WE LOVED:

• This heart-warming story about a woman who found out what the world would be like without her. (It’s a bit like It’s a Wonderful Life, but with dentists.)
• Exam time is a stressful time – so in case anyone is getting overwhelmed by it all, check out 17 of the best incorrect exam answers of all time.
• Dogs reacting to citrus fruits. Best. Thing. Ever.

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THINGS WE SHARED:

• NPR has looked back at the summer of 1963, a momentous year in civil rights history, and told the story of one woman’s struggle to overcome a legacy of segregation.
• A lost opera aria has been recovered 200 years after being lost forever using x-rays. According to legend, the composer of “Du trouble affreux qui me dévore” from the 1797 opera Médée scribbled over the aria after critics complained the opera was too long.

Who’s that little kid on the left, walking down Dublin’s O’Connell Street? It’s only George Harrison (aka the best Beatle), via Rare Irish Stuff’s Page