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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.
5: The number of years it took a NASA spacecraft to reach Jupiter in a mission to explore the huge planet.
1000%: The percentage rise in people sleeping rough in Ireland from 2011 to 2015, according to a report from the Simon Community in Cork.
56: The number of convictions in France that arose out of the Euro 2016 football championships, according to the French interior minister.
2.6 million: The number of words in veteran British civil servant John Chilcot’s report about the 2003 British invasion of Iraq.
6: The number of years Oscar pistorius was sentenced to prison for for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
39: The number of minutes the Dáil was left waiting for yesterday after too few TDs turned up.
5: The number of people who were gored at this year’s Pamplona running of the bull’s festival.
3: The number of toll booths eFlow customer will no longer be able to use as of 31 August die to a dispute between two companies.
€22 million: The amount of money won by a syndicate of Dublin Bus drivers on the Euromillions. The lucky drivers collected their winnings at Lotto HQ this week.
8,400: The number of US troops that will remain in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama leaves office.
750,000: The number of people living in poverty in Ireland, according to figures released by Social Justice Ireland (SJI).
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To be fair greyhound are not noted for their generosity.
Wally, You should go on hunger strike in solidarity with the refuse workers!
Robert,
How about you take a vow of silence instead?
@Billy Mooney:
You really do talk rubbish.
Another privatized service thats gone to profit driven companies.. Why people want to go this route with all public services is beyond me..
waste in this country is a disaster.
DCC made a hames of privatisation and this coupled with the populist parties campaigning against charges or pay by weight have pushed us towards this crappy cartel.
this wasn’t helped by the fact that he government seem incapable of launching new policies or services without some major balls up.
because of this a huge proportion of our waste is now exported and our indigenous recycling industry (not the waste collectors) are unable to compete with incineration abroad.
so we are losing jobs as well as the money that could have be created through recycling.
granted, the government made a p
@stopit: last sentence was something about how pathetic FG/FF are. rant over.
It is time to renationalise waste collection services.
These companies are criminal thieving gangsters.
“Dublin City Council is aware of reports of issues regarding waste collection in certain parts of the city and couldn’t give a fúck”
That was a rubbish story
It’s a pity that the private companies were allowed to take over for profit from the public service who were doing a great job on waste disposal. It’s a shame this story did not get the same attention as the water protest
@Alan Scott: Ah see the snakes got it in with there nice new shiny wheelie bins and conned us all.
Dread the day Greyhound comes out to DLR – i’ll be switching immediately
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