D Thursday, September 17, 2009 METRO We have a great mortgage offering: Market leading rates from 2.3% APR variable and 2.6% APR fixed Dedicated fund of 1 billion for first time buyers Competitive loan to value rates of up to 92% Call 1890 365 850 www.bankofireland.ie *This figure is based on the average number of customers per day who drew down their mortgages between January and June 09. The actual average is 55 customers per day based on a 5-day week. Lending criteria and terms and conditions apply. Security and insurance required. The maximum mortgage is normally 90-92% of the property value. As a general rule, loan amounts are subject to monthly repayments not exceeding 30% to 40% of the borrower(s) disposable income and will vary according to individual circumstances. A typical variable rate mortgage of 100,000 over 20 years costs 531.59 per month (APR 2.60%). The cost of your monthly repayments may increase. A 1% interest rate rise will increase this repayment to 581.48 (APR 3.60%). This is an increase of 49.89 per month. Information correct as at 14th May 2009. Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank is a member of Bank of Ireland Group. Bank of Ireland and Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank, trading as Bank of Ireland Mortgages are regulated by the Financial Regulator. WARNING: YOUR HOME IS AT RISK IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP PAYMENTS ON A MORTGAGE OR ANY OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IT. THE LENDER MAY ADJUST THE PAYMENT RATES ON A HOUSING LOAN FROM TIME TO TIME. YOU MAY PAY CHARGES IF YOU PAY OFF A FIXED RATE LOAN EARLY Every day 50 home buyers get a mortgage with us* Plea over missing Romanian girlTWO people could hold clues to the disappearance of a Romanian girl missing for 19 months. Speculation has mounted that Marioara Rostas, aged 18, was abducted, raped and killed by a known criminal but garda say they have no evidence to support this. Two callers told garda they had heard reports of her fate. Det Supt Gabriel OHara urged them to get in touch with garda or Crimestoppers, which may offer a reward. Somebody knows what happened and I am appealing to them, he said. Marioara has dark hair and was wearing blue jeans, white trainers, a white hooded top, a pink scarf and a black jacket when last seen on January 6 or 7, 2008, on Brabazon Street in Dublins south inner city. A silver Ford Mondeo, registration beginning 01 LH, may also point to her disappearance. Emergency crew rescue the driver of the tram after the collision on Dublins OConnell Street yesterday Picture: Getty Panic as crash sounded like a bomb going offTHERE was panic on OConnell Street after a Luas tram smashed into a bus, eyewitnesses said yesterday. Shoppers and passers-by said the impact was like a bomb going off, with many rushing to help passen- gers trapped on both vehicles. The collision at the Abbey Street junction shortly before 3pm left the tram derailed and embedded in the side of the Santry bound bus. One witness, David Barry, told TV3 News that passengers on the Luas started to panic when they realised they couldnt get out. The doors wouldnt open. Every- one was standing there trying to get the doors open or break a window, he said. There was a few badly in- jured, some of them were travelling on the bus and the driver was badly injured. Nana Owusu ran to the scene from his car after hearing the impact: We heard the bang from our car, we BY ROSS McDONAGH lously escaped injury after the roof was ripped off a double decker bus when it crashed into a tree. The bus was making its way along a designated bus lane on Dublins North Strand towards Artane in February when it struck the over- hanging tree. The last major transport accident happened five years ago when a Dublin Bus vehicle mounted a city centre pavement ploughing into a queue of passengers. Five people were killed and others injured in the accident at a bus stop on Wellington Quay in 2004. Early last year, a pedestrian was killed after being hit by the Luas the first person to be killed in an ac- cident involving the light-rail system since it began operating in 2004. More accidents occur on the red line Tallaght route than on the green Sandyford line because of the number of signal junctions. rushed down and saw that there had been a collision, so we tried to help the injured. Another witness, Frank Walpole, at first thought it may have been a tar- geted attack: It was as if a bomb went off, I was afraid to go over, I really was. Last night, Fine Gael called for the findings of any investigation to be made public. Senator Paschal Donohoe said: My main concern is for passengers injured in this unthinkable collision. It is imperative that this crash be urgently investigated and that the findings be published. The public must have complete confidence in the safety of both the Luas and bus and this must be re- stored with a thorough investiga- tion, Mr Donohoe added. 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