The new 80% loan to value limit will be introduced for most borrowers, in a significant tightening of the current lending regime. Photograph: Frank MillerNew mortgage rules allow relief for first-time buyers
Not all corruption findings against Ray Burke removedBertie Ahern arriving at the Mahon Tribunal in Dublin Castle on September 20th, 2007. Photograph: Kate Geraghty
Little appetite for sale of Government’s Aer Lingus share Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe: he emphasised that the Government’s decision would be based on wider considerations than the price. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Asylum centres should come under Ombudsman, say TDsPádraig MacLochlainn TD, chairman (front), and Derek Nolan TD, vice chairman, Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions, visiting the Great Western House direct provision centre in Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
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Graham Dwyer trial: Knife, mask and cuffs found in reservoir Garda James Codd leaving Dublin Central Criminal Court after he gave evidence in the trial of Graham Dwyer. Photograph: Collins Courts
Alexis Tsipras gives top economic posts to left-wingersNewly appointed Greek prime minister and winner of the Greek parliamentary elections, Alexis Tsipras, attends a swearing in ceremony by members of his cabinet at the presidential palace in Athens on January 27th, 2015. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
World leaders visit Auschwitz with remaining survivorsSeventy years after the Red Army liberated the Nazi camp’s 7,000 remaining prisoners, the 300 elderly survivors supported each other on their walk down the railway line, past the notorious selection ramp, towards the former gas chambers and crematoriums. Photograph: Andrzej Grygiel/Poland Out
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Google buys former warehouse at Grand Canal DockThe newly refurbished redbrick Dock Mill which has been bought by Google for €13m. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Met Éireann issues snow and ice warningThe weather is due to turn “bitterly cold with biting winds”. Horses on Divis Mountain in Belfast last week. Photograph: Getty
Petrol bomb thrown at office of TD Michelle Mulherin Garda and the fire service at the scene of the petrol bomb attack on Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin’s constituency office on John Street in Ballina on Tuesday night. Photograph: Henry Wills.
President Higgins called ‘midget parasite’ by protestersPresident Michael D Higgins was verbally abused by anti-water protesters as he visited a school in Finglas last week. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times.

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