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Trinity College, cannabis, and going to the dentist : The week in numbers

Plus: How many Irish people have travelled to Switzerland for an assisted suicide?

EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.

€570 million - The amount of money that developers owe to local authorities around the country.

90,000 - The number of people that Transport Minister Paschal Donohue has estimated will be affected by five days of industrial action at Irish Rail.

8,324 - The number of working days lost to industrial disputes in the first six months of this year.

8,000 - The amount of metres of cable stolen from Eircom so far this year.

81 - The age that former taoiseach Albert Reynolds was when he died on Thursday.

63 - The amount of hours that Irish radio DJs spent talking to break the world record for the longest ever marathon radio talk show by a team.

56 - The percentage of Irish people between the ages of 15 and 24 who believe that cannabis should be legalised.

69 - The number of bombing incidents in Northern Ireland in the last year – significantly higher than the number ten years ago.

45 - The average cost of going to the dentist in Ireland, according to a new survey.

31 - The percentage of people who own a smartphone but who never download a single app for it, apparently.

25 - The number of students who were offered places at Trinity College Dublin this year based on their Leaving Cert results, how they performed compared to the rest of their school, and a personal statement.

15 - The percentage of teenagers in Dublin 17 who go on to third-level education – the lowest percentage of any postcode in Dublin.

11 - The number of years that a 16-year-old boy in the US has been sentenced to spend in jail after carving a swastika into another boy’s forehead.

2 - The number of Irish people who travelled to Switzerland for an assisted suicide between 2008 and 2012.

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    Mute Barry Ryan
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    Aug 23rd 2014, 8:52 PM

    That weed number is much higher I can assure you. The reason they won’t have a, legalise the harmless plant that we’ve used the media machine for nearly 100 years to say it is bad is….. it will easily pass, that’s why.

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    Mute paulie_waulie
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    Aug 23rd 2014, 9:10 PM

    Bang on the money Barry

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    Mute Cannabis Freedom
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    Aug 24th 2014, 10:52 AM

    NORML Ireland (National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is now fully up & running and is looking to build its membership numbers, cannabis activits get involved, with enough support we can make things happen.

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    Mute paulie_waulie
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    Aug 24th 2014, 11:48 AM

    Is it norml.ie ?

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    Mute Glen Hoddle
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    Aug 23rd 2014, 8:06 PM

    A lot of weed in triners…

    Watch the eyes – out on sticks.

    For a growing number (!)

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    Mute Ablitive
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    Aug 23rd 2014, 10:02 PM

    Ferguson occurred 33 days before 9/11/ 2014

    James Foley occurred 22 days before 9/11/2014

    Could we be expecting something to happen 11 days before 9/11/2014?

    9/11 or the 11th September is the 111th day before the end of the year and also the 254th of the year….2+5+4 = 11

    September 11th 2014 is also the 13th anniversary of the Twin Towers, a significant number in itself.

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    Mute The Todd
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    Aug 24th 2014, 2:25 AM

    Easily the 6th or 7th time you’ve posted this over the course of the week…we all believe you, now give it a rest

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    Mute Theo Walcott
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    Aug 24th 2014, 3:22 AM

    Good man, these similarities are just a natural occurrence.
    It doesn’t mean anything, it’s called chance.

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    Mute Mini Miss
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    Aug 24th 2014, 7:18 AM

    There’s me lotto numbers sorted!

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    Mute Ablitive
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    Aug 24th 2014, 11:16 AM

    The Todd … 6+7 = 13

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    Aug 24th 2014, 11:55 AM

    Abilitive 2+2=5

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    Mute David Grey
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    Aug 24th 2014, 9:22 AM

    We need the right to vote more- like in the US States!
    We should be able to demand a vote on any subject- legalise it by letting us vote in favour! – I’m 46 and would support legalisation-particularly for Medical conditions such as Muscular Dystrophy, MS, Cancer, Glaucoma, AS, Parkinsons, Iritis, Chronic pain, chronic arthritis etc etc!
    Ireland needs to wake up like Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Netherlands etc!

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    Aug 24th 2014, 12:46 AM

    Will the councils still get the same developers to work for these councils? It stinks of corruption. No other business could survive this abuse of taxpayers money. They owe the money to the people of Ireland. Sure who cars is the attitude.

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