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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.
€700 million: The amount of repayments Brian O’Donnell – who is at the centre of the legal row over the repossession of a Killiney mansion – claims he and his wife have made to banks worldwide.
€7.9 million: The amount that Willie Walsh earned at IAG last year (and five times what he made in 2012).
€10,000: The amount that The Gloaming won for picking up the Meteor Choice Music prize for Irish album of the year during the week.
€3,500: The amount that the Taoiseach earns every week. He explained to us why he’s worth it.
73: The age in years of the vintage plane Harrison Ford was flying when he crash-landed on Thursday night. His son said afterwards that he was ‘battered but ok’.
28.3: The percentage of people in Northern Ireland who have had some kind of serious mental health issues. At least half of these were directly linked to The Troubles.
13.96: The average number of sick days taken in 2013 by staff at the Property Registration Authority, the highest rate in the public service.
12: The number of acts which have female artists/musicians announced for Electric Picnic so far.
10.1%: The percentage of the workforce that was unemployed at the end of February. The figure was the lowest it has been in six years.
5: The number of pedestrians who have died on Ireland’s roads so far this year.
3.6: The size in inches of the average flaccid penis, according to a study of 15,000 men.
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Beware of online ads offering cheap circumcisions. It’s a rip off.
Having read the headline about the length of penises, I read the sub-head as
“How much did Willie Wash earn last year?”!!!
Hear about the bloke who kept cutting the wrong place when performing circumcisions? He got the sack.
Clowns get fit in small spaces
I have a 12 inch dick, but I don’t use it, as a rule…
The Fine-Gaelers are out in force I see, – no sense of humour.
Haha – I knew it, – Edna’s stooges with all the fake accounts.
We’re on to you, you fascist pigs….!!!
12 inches, does it shed its foreskin once a year?
My penis is 3.6 inches….away from the floor!
Because it’s so large. Form a line ladies.
Not bad for a dwarf!
Short and thick does the trick..long and thin goes to far in !
I bought a magic mirror awhile ago and stuck it onto the back of the door and said the magic words “Mirror mirror on the door make my dick hit the floor” Me dick fell off.
All that and you still missed out one of the more interesting stories on numbers this week, about the anomalies in the Garda numbers on stolen firearms:
How tall is enda kenny
The metric measurement sounds bigger!
In a locker room with 30 guys, I’d definitely be in the top 27 for size.
Never call your child willy
Hiya Christine. .;-)
Who would have thought that Ireland would provided an £8 million Willie…….Impressive…!!
The same size as members of this government?
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