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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.
27: The number of years Steve Whitmire spent playing Kermit the Frog on the Muppets before it was announced he was being fired this week.
10,000: the number of Irish Water customers who have been issued a boil water notice after an E. coli detection.
7.5: The number of acres of a school’s playing pitches that were sold by the Christian Brothers to pay for redress.
€200,000: The amount of money Ireland is donating to support Palestinians in the West Bank.
€1.115 billion: The amount of money a French court ruled that Google does NOT have to pay in taxes in France as the internet giant’s Irish subsidiary is not taxable there.
€197,699: The average price being paid for a home in Ireland, according to the CSO’s latest residential property index.
€120 million: The estimated rollout cost of a recycling deposit scheme for plastic, glass bottles and cans.
€40 million: The cost of the project to see a steelworks dump on a Cork island turned into a park.
€28.9 million: The amount of money won by an Irish syndicate on last week’s Euromillions jackpot, who have made contact with the National Lottery.
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Pac-man on my phone would be fantastic if the b@stard went where you wanted him to go. Swiping is just not as responsive as the joystick on the arcade version..
The Google Maps Pacman easter egg is brilliant. Pick any spot anywhere on the map and it turns the streets into a Pacman game. Can be difficult if the roads have awkward turns, meaning you’re probably better off picking somewhere like New York than you are the local town.
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