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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.
260: The number of pages in Pope Francis’ ‘Apostolic Exhortation’ released yesterday, which lays out the Catholic Church’s stances on aspects of family life.
28: The age of Anthony Garver, who stands accused of torturing a woman to death. He escaped from a psychiatric hospital this week.
8: The number of months during which Fidel Castro had failed to appear in public before an appearance on Thursday.
45: The number of migrants sent back to Turkey from Greece on Friday as part of a controversial EU deal.
2,000: The number of people whose personal details were made publically available due to a technical issue on the Irish Aviation Authority’s website.
2020: The year a second runway at Dublin Airport announced this week is due to be completed. Nearby residents also voiced their concerns over the proposed development.
15: The number of minutes a meeting between Enda Kenny and Michéal Martin lasted this week as both leading parties failed to make any significant movement towards forming a government.
999: Emergency workers staged strikes this week.
7.5 million: The number of Fyffes bananas contained on the a container ship on its way to Cork. It will be the largest one to ever berth at an Irish port.
400: The age of a priceless Shakespeare first edition folio that was discovered on a Scottish island.
823: The number of tourists who were robbed or attacked in Ireland last year.
21: The number of people arrested after the US set up a fake university to combat immigration fraud.
6: The number of extra strike days announced by Luas workers this week.
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People who use these are muppets. Everyone knows the risks to these.
One day pale and freckly will be in.
And not to mention how fake and unnatural it can look. Umpa lumpas walking around in December trying to fool people. #iwokeuplikethis
Don’t even get me started on fake tan Super. Christ it’s awful! Why would you have a shower/bath to rub what looks like shite all over your body and then think looks/smells good?! Then the next morning, it’s missing off your hands and feet and looks like you shat the bed! Would rather spend the money on a good decent body lotion to look good than spread that crap all over me.
Damn I didn’t know sh!te got by the journo police. My sh!te has an exclamation mark, same as my tan
Nothing beats a pale skinned, dark haired, blue eyed, Irish cailin.
Not everything is an “addiction”, some people are just stupid and have no willpower or don’t care.
Good God, you’ve been tangoed love.
Girl goes to work Friday and looks normal. Same girl comes into work Monday and looks like she sat in a bath of Ronseal and thinks everyone thinks she got a tan in the Irish Monsoon Summer over the weekend. The Ronseal look is not a good look. Looks crap. Fake tan, fake girl, fake personality.
Cure for tanning addiction=fake tan!
Thought it was going to be an article addressing my Tanora dependency.
Great piece here from the Irish Cancer Society about the dangers of sunbed use. Anyone who still uses them after reading this need a serious wake-up call. http://www.cancer.ie/reduce-your-risk/sunsmart/sunbeds#sthash.LFs1qokg.dpbs
I agree with the majority of comments on here. Covering yourself with fake tan is like smearing your own excrement all over yourself. Same smell and same colour. People who do this are crazy.
When I was a kid, there was a woman around the corner who opened a tanning salon. She also rented out sunbeds for home use. She had one herself, and every night you’d see the purple glow of the UV lights emanating from her room.
She died from skin cancer.
Or the shock when she got her ESB bill.
Jesus there’s nothing worse looking imo
bla bla “her body her choice” bla bla bla
Nutters!
Coco butter nutters
How they are not browned off i will never know
cracking pic mid article, thank you journal!
I thought it said ‘Somalia’ tanning salon …..
Yer wan looks like she jumped in a bath of curry sauce
Why does reading this article give me the urge to rent the latest Hollywood blockbuster on DVD…? (Never understood the connection and why tanning booths and DVD rental was good business acumen? Ah well. Better left a mystery.
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