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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.
€65 million: The Department of Justice has issued a €65 million tender for a new Direct Provision centre for asylum seekers.
12: The number of meat factories apparently brought to a halt by blockades, as protests by beef farmers continue in the wake of widespread disappointment over a proposed deal.
60: A ban on burning in Brazil will last 60 days, as the country struggles to deal with the fires raging through the Amazon.
57,500: The number of people who descended on Stradbally for this weekend’s Electric Picnic festival to see Florence & the Machine, The Strokes and Hozier.
4: The number of countries – the UK, Greece, the Czech Republic and Albania – that have lost their measles-free status as the number of cases increases across Europe.
611: The number of apartments developers are hoping to build on the site of the former RTÉ campus.
2: The number of weeks climate activist Greta Thunberg spent at sea as she travelled to New York to attend a climate change conference. The 16-year-old had refused to take a plane because of carbon emissions.
1%: How much the value of sterling initially fell by after Boris Johnson asked the queen to suspend parliament earlier this week.
€30,409: The average starting salary for a graduate jumped from €29,060 last year to exceed €30,000, according to a report published this week.
7: A school in Glanmire in Cork welcomed seven sets of twins as part of the new first-year intake.
635: The number of Brexit Party general election candidates unveiled this week by Nigel Farage.
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Forget the therapy!
SCRAP the show.
Do us all a favour.
@✨Barbara Christopher: couldn’t agree more. These people think they are on the road to fame and fortune when reality is only 1 in a million of them make anything from it, they rest drop down quickly from their high, only to find media will still plague them when things are not going well in their life, yet they have to return to normal everyday life without any of the benefits.
There is no get rich quick dream for 99.9999999% of us — people think it’s an easy way to it, same as if a deal looks too good to be true, then it always is
Fed a dream of fame and fortune to parade as ridicule fodder for the masses.
Unhinging being a outcome for some
Remember the days when people got famous for having a talent, can we go back to that please?
Now why do you wanna go and put stars in their eyes
Its the same old story but they just didn’t realise
And the tabloids use your face to document your fall from grace and then they tell you that that’s just the way it goes
I do be amazed at how people get so into these kind of shows. Each to their own I suppose.
@Martin Harte:
It’s therapy you’d be needing after watching half of this phony shyte.
Fame however brief has a high price for some people. Sometimes its better to carve your own way through life and equip yourself along the way with the life skills that will sustain you in times of toil. Some young people unfortunately are not mentored very well by their elders.
@Charles McCarthy: i wouldn’t like to be famous. Once lived in a town, everyone knows everyone, moved 4 year ago neighbours only know me to say hello to, absolute bliss
@Martin Harte: Same here, I actually fair a lot better blending in with strangers in a city, along with 2-3 good friends I meet every few weeks.
@Charles McCarthy: it’s the simple things my friend
The therapy should come when someone expresses an interest in going on the show. It is blatant exploitation of the vulnerable.
For heavems sske get rid of those reality shows.i.mean the lot of them.
@James Reidy: I second that.
These “celebs” entire young lives are about taking selfies and posting on social media. When they get nasty comments or not enough “likes” they can’t handle it because they’ve never lived in the real world.
They need therapy to do the show in the first place!!!
I don’t think people realise just how mercenary television is. Unless you’re the “talent” everyone is disposable once the programme is broadcast. Just performing monkeys and talking heads until its a wrap, then on to the next commission. It’s a horrible industry.
We automatically think fame equals happiness. When we are teenagers, that is the dream. But unfortunately in todays world, it can lead to misery. Everyone is a critic now days. I read an article about all these reality tv stars that have committed suicide. They all thought mass fame would lead to happiness. Jim Carey once said that he wished everyone could become rich and famous overnight, just so they could see that it is not the answer.
Too many cases of people having meltdowns on these freak shows. All these reality shows should be banned. There shows for saddos with no lives
@Fergus Sheahan: what kind of an immature gimme t it that to out under and article about 2 people who have suicided. You should have a little more Empathy in fairness.
It is a horrible format for a television show and everyone would be better off if they didn’t continue with it.
You would neer therapy before you even volunteered to go on that riduculas show in the first place. Unfortunate that this guy took his life, too many feed in to the hopes of being famous on these reality shows. I refuse to watch them.
Scrap all of these terrible shows.
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