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EVERY SATURDAY, TheJournal.ie brings you a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
38: The number of snakes stolen from a flat in Liverpool during the week.
30.3: The average age of Irish women when they have their first child, according to new HSE figures.
2: The number of days that DUP MP Gregory Campbell was banned from speaking in the Northern Ireland assembly after he ridiculed the Irish language, again.
1: The number of people who have officially declared that they are running for the US presidency in 2016 so far. Republican Ted Cruz was first off the block, announcing his candidacy earlier this week.
50 - The number of times an Irishman in Switzerland admitted to stabbing his wife who died.
150 - The number of people who died after a Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps.
30: The number of seconds Jeremy Clarkson’s violent attack on Oisín Tymon lasted.
1.7 million: The number of knowingly incorrectly bills Irish Water will send out.
€175: The amount an economist thinks we should all get to boost the economy.
4,000: The number of schools that will get an Irish flag delivered ahead of 1916 commemorations.
30: The number of people living in a squatted community in Grangegorman that are to be evicted.
130: The number of firefighters needed to tackle an explosion in New York.
4 - The number of remaining members of One Direction after Zayn Malik left the boyband.
€115 million: The amount a Dubliner sold his online payments company for.
2,620: The number text messages retrieved and analysed by gardaí in the Elaine O’Hara murder investigation.
488: Persons interviewed by gardaí looking into the murder. 0: The number of dissenting voices in the jury’s unanimous decision. - With reporting from Rónán Duffy
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nice one
Vincent Browne is a ledgend and is the only real journalist out there that reports the issues that the public want to hear and not a load of bs that the government and the papers feed to its people every day.
I’m sick to death of hearing more of the same regurgitated about the bank debt…repeating it won’t change anything. Energies are better focused on what we can do to turn things around
Becaue the bank debt matters. You are paying for it with YOUR money. I’m not sure if your post is meant to be sarcastic but on the current trajectory, we are heading for a second bailout with savage austerity. If you’re ok with that, good luck!
I hear ya Brenda. (Most) Irish peoples attitudes are a big reason I want to do a few years abroad working, not the economic crisis!
A good news story, a murder suspect tracked down. Good work by Gardai & Interpol. a long wait for family of victim. Plenty of coverage of our banks etc … A dangerous man behind bars has to be a good result.
The Police have done their job but my original point is that people on here are starting the vigilante thing. Brave computer warriors. Aren’t people more concerned about issues close to home like our banking debts that we are saddled with?
Tim – your Facebook details alone scream anti anything other than Sinn Fein. Please reserve these ludicrous comments for relevant articles regarding government, economy, Europe (not the football) etc. otherwise stop peddling this anarchism on completely unrelated articles.nnThanks,nEvery other reader
Not every story is going to be about bank debt.
Can we move onto more relevant stories closer to home please. Namely, the Bank debt.
lol.. did you just get the internet yesterday? Bank debt.. shur that’s hardly relevant these days.
Anyways.. fair play to Interpol and our Gardai. At least something positive still exists in this debt ridden hole of ours!
mart,
You’re not as clever as you want others to believe. Few vigilantes go on a witchhunt except those with little or no news to report as a journalist. At least Vincent Browne is one respected journalist to admire – he covers issues of interest to the Irish people.
You need to lighten up, Tim. Not everything revolves around our national debt… good things can still happen when you fell like you’re in the doldrums.
Hi Tim,
Plenty of economic stories on the site today. Here’s just one:
Thanks,
Sinead
Jesus Tim, if you want to read about debt and economic woe by all means look at the titles before you click in. This is a good news story – yes, they still happen – don’t dampen it with your negativity. Good news TheJournal et al. I remember seeing the story a few weeks ago. nnNext theyve got to find DJ MorgIOS…couldn’t resist….
In the end there shall be only 1
My god Tim I’m losing the will to live reading your comments. How negative, boring and repetitive can one person be? Maybe you’re just trolling like lots of other people on this site?
What Bank debt, it’s now the Irish Taxpayers’ debt. The un-named bondholders are laughing all the way to their Euro banks with our money given to them by that idiot Cowen in late night deals and now supported by this spineless government.
If they put him in a cell with Sean Quinn, who would walk out alive?
If they put me in a cell with him instead of Sean Quinn, he’d probably walk out alive because I would probably have died from boredom.
Hyperbole media is replacing tabloid media. Personally, I no longer read newspapers that report on court cases because it’s merely an attempt to cover-up for their lack of journalism. Negative news reporting with titles like “man arrested for xyz” or “man jailed for xyz” is boorish.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
― George Orwell
Yeah yeah yeah, whine, whine, whine, what a ball of fun your friends must find you. Life goes on with or without bank debt. I am not here forever and intend enjoying the time I am here so not planning on spending it whining.
Because the bank debt matters everything else doesn’t…. Yeah, sure, nice one… Go away, your boorish
Tim ( bank debt ) Jackson. Has a nice ring to it. As many here have pointed out there are a couple of stories here day to day on the dealings of the banks and they like of scoundrels like Quinn. This is the journal.ie not bankdebt.ie. it was interesting to see some post about your Facebook saying your were pro SF. Is it any wonder you are not find of Interpol. Half the shiners are on the run with a boot full of stolen ink
Edit .Fond of interpol. Thanks you and goodnight.
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