NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a roundup of today’s news.

IRELAND

Rosslare Europort, where €2.4 million worth of cocaine was seized yesterday. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that it would be a “lost opportunity” if the DUP don’t agree to the Windsor Framework and return to powersharing at Stormont by the time US President Joe Biden visits Ireland next month.
• Green Party TD Neasa Hourigan has said she will vote against the government in a motion to extend the eviction ban.
• A man arrested in connection with a claim of responsibility by the New IRA for the shooting of senior PSNI detective John Caldwell has been released.
• Gardaí in Wexford have arrested a man in his 30s following the seizure of cocaine worth an estimated €2.4 million at Rosslare Europort yesterday.
• Two men are due  due in court this morning in connection with the unlawful discharge of a firearm in Galway this week.

INTERNATIONAL

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#BANKING Swiss investment bank UBS has agreed to buy Credit Suisse for more than $2 billion in a government backed deal which would combine Switzerland’s two largest banks.

#UKRAINE Vladimir Putin has made a surprise trip to Mariupol, his first visit to territory captured from Ukraine since the start of Moscow’s invasion.

#TRUMP Senior US Republicans have echoed Donald Trump’s claim that a looming indictment in a hush-money case would amount to political “persecution,” while Democrats warned his call for protests would lead to political unrest.

#SHOOTING An attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara today wounded two Israelis, one of them seriously, the army and rescuers said.

#AUSTRALIA Millions of fish have washed up dead in south-eastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by floods and hot weather.

PARTING SHOT

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Wild Youth lead singer Conor O’Donohoe has promised that his band’s Eurovision performance will be “big and bold”.

The group will represent Ireland in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool on 9 May with their song We Are One.

O’Donohoe said he believes the song lives up to the size and stature of the contest, adding he is undergoing a training regime to get ready.

“I don’t want to give anything away. It’s all very, very cool.”