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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.
800,000: The number of new passengers it’s claimed will be attracted by a massive upgrade of Dún Laoghaoire harbour.
12: The number of minutes it took for almost 4,000 Canadian visa applications to be snapped up by Irish people.
350: The number of Irish towns that are to receive a new super-fast broadband connection.
€2.1 million: What the banking inquiry has already cost.
30,287: The number of hacked documents from Sony that Wikileaks have published.
150: The number of customers who received Irish Water bills of more than €1,000.
6: The number of miles off-shore three lobster fishermen were when their boat capsized.
400: The estimated number of migrants who died when their boat sank off the Libyan coast.
$70,000: The minimum wage set in a US company after its CEO slashed his own wage.
16.3%: The overall increase in the value of Irish property prices in 2014.
43 million: The number of kilometers from the Sun a partly Irish-made space probe will get to the Sun, the closes ever man-made object.
2: The number of Cadbury Fingers that have been removed from every packet.
64,671: The number of new cars registered in the first three months of the year, a 30% increase on last year.
€6.2 billion: What the EU could fine Google after it accused the web giant of abusing its position as the world’s largest search engine.
30: The number of Senators that would be chosen by a popular vote under a proposal by the government.
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I’ve also heard that Cadbury’s have hacked off one-fifth of Freddo the Frog .
And our giving redundancies to their staff as they are moving operations to a cheaper country
everybody is leaving. I am hoping to go myself and I am in the higher tax bracket. I stayed because i felt it served my country to pay tax and support others. I am now over it. It doesn’t serve me anymore. I am in debt and I would be better off elsewhere.
and when I say debt, its minimum and I can pay it back. Not compared to the fraudsters that gambled. They have put me and many others in debt
Dear Mr. Journalist. It’s “how quickly”, not “how quick”. When describing a verb, you use an adverb, not an adjective. I know that the internet likes to bugger with adverbs, particularly if it pertains to doing anything “direct”, but you, as indebted as you are to the English language for your living should be able to show that language just a modicum of respect.
I wish wikileaks would stop invading other people’s privacy. It worries me to think what would happen if they started targeting business and political figures over here, not that there’s anything to hide of course.
Fake account
Fake account but some of the view expressed aren’t far off the YFG mentality
I suppose Mr and Ms Majority really thought you looked like a silent when you were born?
Silent majority who are you?
Looks like Kevin and yfg are best buddies .. Interesting
Suzie are you and davedunne the same person? You both seem a bit obsessed with me.
Is that the best you could come up with ?
I differ in policy to yfg on most issue. It’s a careerists clubs for most. Boosts the cv for various employers. I dislike yfg and would never vote FG after what they’ve done.
have your say