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EVERY SATURDAY TheJournal.ie brings you a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help digest the week that has just passed.
380: The number of pages in a submission to the banking inquiry by former top civil servant Kevin Cardiff.
18: The number of bikes stolen every day across Ireland according to the gardaí.
€5.1 billion: What Irish-registered exploration company Dragon Oil is reportedly worth thanks to a takeover deal.
30: The number of tax havens being ‘blacklisted’ by the EU.
300: The number post offices that account for two-thirds all of An Post’s business transactions.
21,000: The number of pieces of space debris that are bigger than a melon according to Nasa.
49: Where Dublin placed in a ranking of the most expensive cities worldwide.
1,000+: The number of staff that will be employed by Facebook in Ireland when a new data centre in Meath is finished.
1.65c: What it costs to make a 1c coin. Both 1c and 2c coins are to be scrapped by the Central Bank.
50: The number of languages Fifty Shades of Grey has been translated into. The new novel was released this week.
480: The number of people directly employed by Clerys who have lost their jobs following its closure.
2: The number of paragraphs from an RTÉ report about Denis O’Brien that could not be made public after much legal wrangling.
€44 million: The value of instant noodles Nestle had to destroy over safety fears in India.
10: The number of hours customers were unable to check-in or book on the Ryanair website on Friday.
€1,205: The average cost to rent an apartment in Dublin right now.
3: The number of months in prison a homeless man received from rubbing his excrement around a garda cell.
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0……the number of Bondholders every week who have suffered along with the Irish people since the crisis began.
1: The number of days early this article is, (Today is Friday guys).
No not a lot of value but what about all the charities that depend on our loose change now enda what are you going to do about it
Give higher value loose change… 5c, 10c , 20c and why not the odd 50c or greater.
It is a copper coated iron?
Will that mean an end to 1c, 2c and 4c stamps now?
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