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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.
€715,000: The amount that someone paid for one of the first Apple computers, which was sold at an auction in New York this week.
4,616: The number of secondary school students who have applied to take part in the BT Young Scientist competition in January.
2,963: The number of miles between Times Square in New York and the nearest Supermacs, according to giant billboards which went up in the city during the week.
2,400: The number of people executed in China last year - the highest number of any country.
200: The number of hours of community service handed down to 19-year-old Jordan Buckley from Crumlin in Dublin who jumped over the main barrier at Leinster House with a sword.
37: The number of years that 6-year-old Mary Boyle has been missing for, in what is Ireland’s longest-running missing person case. A man was arrested in connection with the case this week.
35: The percentage increase in apartment prices in Dublin in the last two months. Sigh.
27: The number of years that Nokia mobile phones existed for. Microsoft confirmed this week that it is to begin phasing out the well-known brand.
7.3: The percentage that Tesco’s profits have fallen in Ireland in the last three months - the biggest drop of any country the supermarket operates in.
5: The number of players from Kerry who made the 2014 Allstar football team this year. Four came from Donegal while Dublin and Mayo had three each.
4: The number of former employees of Blackwater security firm who were found guilty of the killing of more than 14 Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007.
3: The number of TDs suspended from the Dáil in under 45 minutes on Wednesday morning amid a massive row about speaking time.
0.51: The percentage of members of the Defence Forces selected for random drug testing who failed the test.
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No reason to.
Why would we needlessly antagonise another country and try to create trouble for ourselves?
I think he’s a very poor leader but he’s US President.
@Jenny mcCarty: plus we have invited worse !!!! China comes to mind !!!
@Brinster: we would be foolish not to continue our relationship with the US. He won’t be there forever.
@Brinster: spot on. No need to uninvite anyone. Talking is always better.
@Brinster: I don’t think he is .
Good, he should come here. US is very important to us.
The Don is a friend to Ireland, the day that we don’t accept or invite a US president here is the day we need our collective heads examined.
Be staggering if he did considering how deeply we are in hock to US corporations.
Anyway, really looking forward to the Leftie meltdown.
@Tommy Browne: Awww,you’re so edgy ! Love it!
@Tommy Browne: nice to know you support all his policies. Got it.
Is Leo the biggest spoofer FG ever had as leader ?
It’s a YES from me
Who in their right mind would uninvite the president of the USA.?
Disagree with office holder as much as you want. But the office is a shining light to the world, Ireland cannot afford to besmirch one of its main allies.
Brace yourselves. The Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers are coming.
@Jenny mcCarty: the only ones moaning are you guys!
Well it seems for all the media hype about our new Taoiseach he is no different from his predecessor. Plus ça change etc.
The US is most important trading partner we have. According to the OEC Ireland exports more to the US than the next two EU countries on the list combined. Why would any Irish leader sacrifice the close ties we have with our strongest ally
Only the left-wing Irish media would want to rescind an invitation for a State visit to Ireland by the President of the United States, not the Irish people.
Leo has chosen reasoned discussion over emotional hysterics. Well done Leo.
@Joe Caulfield: You mean the emotional hysterics from Trump if we were to rescind his invitation?
@Lisa Dorothy: No Leo would be instigator in that instance.
Without the US there would be no Ireland.
@Tommy Browne: Better learn your history . Without Ireland there would be no US
@Mary Mc Carthy:
Symbiotic.
Ireland needs the US and the UK no matter the politics. You can’t eat morals
I wonder has Leo put a few thousand euros aside for the influx of the 5-10 people that will be deported in the next decade or so from the US..
@Francis Mc Carthy: 5-10 people doesn’t seem a lot!
@Jenny mcCarty: where did je mention any nationality? By the way, congratulations on account number 71
@Deborah Behan: Yup!
Of course Leo won’t because he is Flip Flopper in Chief.
I don’t think Trump will come unless he thinks we all plan to fawn over him, which I sincerely hope most Irish people won’t.
No reason to make a headline out of Trump coming to Ireland, afterall he owns property here. What would happen if the taoiseach didn’t get an invite to America for St.Patricks Day celebrations.
Of couse he’d like Trump to come. He’ll get a big thrill out of it !
@Adrian: because…?
@Dermot Foley: because of same reason he got a thrill from meeting May and all the pompus officialdom and attention he got from it.
Trump does not give 2f’s about Ireland. Lets get him here and let our feelings known.
Saudi Arabia invited him, it is enough Cash for him and Israel.
Sure Leo can look Trump in the eye and say “nah nah nah my pay packet is bigger than yours”
So Enda Kenny insulted Donald Trump publicly and our new Taoiseach said he would not invite President Trump to Ireland. Are all Taoiseachs idiots now determined to undermine the National Interest so to look popular repeating media friendly sound bites? Depressing.
One egotist meets another
This guy is full of poop
This pig is not wanted in Europe
Leo your the man a pure leader a long time since we had one strong enough great forward thinking man
Great work
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