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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.
€200,000: The amount that a coffee kiosk in Ballsbridge in Dublin has been placed on the market for.
€133,000: The value of the dress worn by Lupita Nyong’o to the Oscars last week, which was stolen from a hotel room afterwards. Oops.
3,458: The number of full-time staff at Eircom. The company has cut about one-third of its staff in the past two years.
€1,295: The amount Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin repayed this week for phone calls made from Leinster House to Kenya.
28: The age that Nick Leeson was when he brought down Barings Bank. This week was the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the bank.
16: The number of years that former popstar Gary Glitter was sentenced to on Friday for a string of sex attacks on schoolgirls.
13: The number of new episodes of House of Cards that went up on Netflix yesterday morning. (Need a catch up? Here’s what it’s all about).
10: The number of months in jail that former World Cup-winning captain of the Italy football team Fabio Cannavaro has been sentenced to spend in jail.
9.9 stone: The combined amount of weight lost by the five leaders in RTE’s Operation Transformation. One of the leaders along lost 2 stone 9.5 lbs.
3: The number of hours that a single mother from Donegal spent in Mountjoy prison after being jailed for not paying her TV licence, before being given a bus ticket home.
€2: The cost of crisp sandwiches at the special Tayto pop-up shop which will be opening in Dublin city centre this week.
€1.36: The total price that 130 houses in northern England have been offered for sale at. The houses are in a village which was left decimated by the closure of the coal mines.
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No mention of insulin pumps which are becoming much more prevalent in Ireland now, they’re advancing (experimentally currently) to a stage were there is no human decision making in the day-to-day management of T1 diabetes, a massive step forward doesn’t even come close to encompassing that.
My sister in law, who lives in Germany but is from Ireland has been using a pump for at least 10 years if not longer!
I am an insulin pump user for over 12 years living in Ireland. Thankfully research and treatment has come along way. I too remember as a young child having to inject with large needles!
When science and the magic of life combine to open the door to the world
Humbling to read this , but also rembering the advances being made that enables people across the world to lead life’s of hope and to think the impossible
As a T1 I would hate to have living throughout the 70s/80s ..it can be hard enough trying to control your sugars now but back then would have been even worse ..thankfully with advance in medicine and technology it’s makes it a good bit easier ..I’ve always wondered what gluco machines were like back then and how long it took to check your bm..
My dad is T1 diabetic for last 30 years and it’s only reading this I now remember him with his bottles of insulin. Now he has a pen but still has to test his blood 4 times a day and calculate how many units of insulin to take. An automatic pump would be another huge improvement. So great for children.
Automatic pumps exist.. You still need to measure blood before meals and enter in the number of carbohydrates consumed into the pumps handheld monitor and then the pump can automatically release the right amount of insulin. No injections required. Is this what your dad has?
Modern Pharma is an incredibly broken system. But damn its effective when there is money to be made.
Damn its effective when it saved my 7 year old from dying. The big pharmaceutical companies are my daughters saviour and life line. I can’t help but be thankful.
Sure but they are still brutal at research.
Im a t2 diabetic and use 2 types of insulin. The use of insulin pens and a quick, simple testing device makes living a normal life very much easier
We all have a go at the drug companies but without them where would we be,dead thats what !!
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