NEED TO CATCH UP? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Gerard Murray playing Jesus Christ at the annual Good Friday reenactment from St John the Baptist Church in Clontarf. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Gardaí arrested a number of people in a raid targeting the Kinahan cartel
• Russia expelled an Irish diplomat
• Paddy Jackson’s solicitor says he intends to sue Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
• Police in the North were also investigating the naming of the complainant in the Jackson rape trial and comments made by a juror
• €1.6 million in drugs and cash was seized in Carlow
• The weather was bad – and will be all weekend
• Pubs were open for the first time on Good Friday in 91 years

INTERNATIONAL

Palestinians march past a tent city erected along the border with Israel east of Gaza City in the Gaza strip. Awakening / Getty Images Awakening / Getty Images / Getty Images

#GAZA:  At least 12 people are dead as tens of thousands of Gazans marched near the Israeli border in a major protest.

#SYRIA: US and UK troops died in a bomb blast in Syria.

#ARNIE: Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger has undergone emergency open-heart surgery, according to US media reports.

PARTING SHOT

We can go to the pub today for the first time in 91 years, but what was it like? Here’s a glimpse.

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