Michael Noonan: Sympathetic to the Greek people’s humanitarian difficulties, but he said sovereign governments were responsible for their own affairs. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesNoonan: Greek plans to bridge funding gap ‘impossible’ 
Pressure mounts on Ukraine peace talks in wake of fighting 
No guarantee of Yes to same sex marriage, warns ShatterFormer Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has warned that a Yes victory in the referendum on same sex marriage is not asured. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Tighter controls to protect heritage of PhibsboroughThe area under protection in Phibsborough village centres on the junction of the North Circular Road and Phibsborough Road, known as Doyle’s corner after the pub of the same name (above centre). Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
DCU likely buyer for All Hallows College in DrumcondraAll Hallows College and grounds at Gracepark Road in Drumcondra, Dublin 9
Strauss-Kahn rejects prostitutes’ accounts of partiesA topless activist jumps on a car carrying Dominique Strauss-Kahn to his trial in Lille, France. She was joined by two others. Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP
DPP told Howlin’s department it could make no budget cuts  Scales of Justice: in refusing the make the budget cuts the DPP said she was “not in a position to decide not to prosecute a class of crime, or crimes in a particular area of the State, in order to make the saving sought.” Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
O’Hara spoke of non-consensual cut marks, man tells courtWitness Robert Cullen Jones said he met Elaine O’Hara on ‘a website for people who like being submissive and dominant’. Photograph: Collins Courts.
Sexton sharpens Ireland’s edge on return to trainingJonathan Sexton enjoys very close relationship with Ireland coach Joe Schmidt. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho
Expert warns on cutbacks to crisis supports for women Dr Nata Duvvury, global women’s studies director at NUI Galway: “Violence in society further pulls down an economy’s capacity to recover from crisis.” Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Government defeats Daly’s abortion Bill with big majority Clare Daly TD, who said to Enda Kenny: “How dare you attempt to have the arrogance to interpret the Constitution when it is only something our courts can do?”. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
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