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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
€19,700,000: The amount that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are donating to the global fight against Ebola.
10,000: The number of people a week who could be infected with Ebola if the infection rate continues, the World Health Organisation has warned.
€3,000: The amount of money that students now have to pay in third-level fees each year. The registration fee has steadily increased over the past decade.
93: The number of minutes which has passed in the Germany versus Ireland football match on Tuesday when John O’Shea scored a crucial equaliser.
76: The height in inches of Blossom, a cow in America awarded the Guinness World Record for being the tallest cow on the planet this week.
68: The number of days that humans would survive on Mars (assuming they made the trip in the first place), according to researchers at MIT.
59: The age of American author John Grisham, who this week said that prison sentences for people who look at child abuse images online are too harsh.
14: The number of people who have been tested for Ebola so far in Ireland. All tests have come back negative.
€8.12: The amount of money on a €10 packet of cigarettes which goes towards tax.
4: The number of new High Court judges nominated this week to fill the vacancies that have arisen.
3: The number of Irish citizens killed in conflicts in the Middle East in the last four years, according to new figures from the Department of Justice.
0: The number of Facebook ‘likes’ that Fine Gael bought. The party is adamant that it has not paid for likes following some unusual activity on its Facebook page.
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Double whammy. Rainy days and Mondays always get me down! Bummer…
@William Tallon: Fliuch sake
@William Tallon: No weather for a carpenter to be outdoors.
Dirty rotten orange bast…
We need it after such a dry spell. Good for the grass and crops.
@Mark: can’t say we are short on water
The rain here in Limerick for the last hour has been biblical!
@FoxyBoiiYT: Doncha knoah it.
@FoxyBoiiYT: That’s Angela’s Ashes weather. It piddled through that movie.
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: I say that all the time! It’s Angela Ashes weather out there
@FoxyBoiiYT: Angela lashes
@CP: That’s extra
@FoxyBoiiYT: Divine punishment!
@FoxyBoiiYT: You’re always going on about how much of a kip Dublin is and you’re from limerick?
I wouldn’t worry unduly. There was a red alert in Tipperary at around a quarter past four yesterday but by five o clock the forecast had been downgraded to that of a gentle breeze.
Hang on we get rain every day what’s the difference. Orange yellow.red .
@k owens: different severities .
Good night now
@k owens: Every day?! Red, yellow, green. It’s a ‘traffic-light system’ used to categorise severities, rash management, decision-making, communication etc. Ask a family member or trusted adult for more information on this if required.
@Jack Hayes: all my family drowned in a flood . They were on Noah’s ark with yours.
@k owens: so they won’t be at croaker in two weeks for the football?
@Jack Hayes: it’s red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigo,violet weather. All the colours of the rainbow weather. Pride,in the Name of Floods. What,more? In the name of floods
@Larry Betts: Primary colours:Red, Yellow and Blue. Orange between Red and Yellow. Green between Yellow and Blue and Violet (purple) between Blue and Red. Where did Indigo come from?? Who uses ‘indigo’? Newton put in Indigo to get 7 colours, the same as the 7 notes in the musical scale. Along with being a scientific and mathematical genius he was a bit of a nut-job and believed 7 was a mystical number. But the time has come……. let’s drop indigo!!
@Me Me: What about Ultra Violet?
God help us all
Landscapers wet dream
What did ye think of the summer?
@p gert: it was an Indian summer, gave a bit of sun and then took it back.!!!
@p gert: National hosepipe ban incoming
Is westmeath not beside
After two weeks good weather in may I sai it was our summer this year and nobody listens
@Mickstawowy: and the 32 degrees on two days just little more than a week ago?
Dunno why we’re not world leaders in coverings from the rain. We seem to prefer just being wet.
Nothing in Dublin to see @ 17.00.
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