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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.
22,341: The number of reports of domestic abuse against women and children received by the charity Women’s Aid last year.
€350,000: The amount of money seized by gardaí along with €10,000 worth of prescription drugs in Co Cavan during the week.
7: The number of minutes it took an American journalist to buy a semi-automatic rifle in Philadelphia. This came after the same model of rifle was used to kill 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
1798: The year of the United Irishmen Rebellion. Croppies Acre Memorial Park was reopened on Tuesday after being closed in 2012 due to anti-social behaviour.
7: The number of years David Mahon was sentenced to on Monday for the manslaughter of his partner’s son Dean Fitzpatrick.
52%: The percentage of Irish people surveyed recently that don’t want Travellers to be to be recognised as an ethnic minority.
€56 million: The amount of money received last year by the charity Doctors Without Borders from European member states and institutions. The charity said yesterday it will no longer take funds from the EU in protest at its “shameful” policies on the migration crisis.
91: The number of recommendations put forward in a report last year to do with the Direct Provision that the government has implemented. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has called on the government to do more.
25: The number of years the internet has been available in Ireland as of yesterday.
200%: The proposed rise in percentage of some people’s bin charges when a new charging scheme will be introduced. The rise was met with much political anger this week.
175%: A new report has shown that alcohol prices in Ireland are 175% the EU average.
But will it leave empty red bull cans and crisp packets in the cavity?
Ten years and 4.6 million is good going to make a cartoon.
Jesus that will do away with alot of construction jobs great invention tho but bad for skilled block laying trade so i am against would put more people out of work.
They’ll need more than 4.6 million to persuade the CFMEU. It would want to be a lot faster than the cartoon to keep up with some of the Aussie crews, 2 months me hole, 2 weeks more like.
I think it even whistles, when a leggy blonde walks by.
Wonder if it’s powered by tea or diesel., and will it turn up two weeks late.
its powered by jumbo breakfast rolls of course..
They built this city. They built this city on breakfast rolls!
Will it charge €2 a block and have a swelled head as well?
10 years and they can’t show a live demonstration. Maybe their €4.8 million cartoon might give The Minions a run for its money…
That and the fact that it’s probably obsolete before it gets going.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2014/apr/29/3d-printer-builds-houses-china-video
No more builders crack taking the eye outoya and putting you off your breakfast.
Roll.
Why are you eating your breakfast in front of builders arses?
Bricklaying is an art when building arches,Flemish garden bonds and feature work,no machine can take away the skill involved when built by a craftsman,no more bricklayers training simply because it’s hard work outside in all types of weather,young people want the money not the trade,I’m a bricklayer and proud.
That’s bull everything is handed to a bricklayer and there scared of bad weather lol
What would you know about anything.
I’d say the “no more bricklayers training” bit is probably down to a massive collapse in the construction industry no?
At the corner of that wall it seems to have placed a full brick where a half one was needed, just saying………..
Like a lot of the rubbish built in the boom so. 2 blocks n a cardboard box for insulation. You can hear next door having a piss and all yours for just 400k.
Why do people keep making things that take away someone’s job, can they not see the damage they are doing?
Profit margin – that’s it and nothing more.
@john that’s called the Luddite fallacy. Why should anyone be against progress? This is a good thing.
back to 1 euro 40 a block so.
In what world does it take 2 months to build the brick frame of a house?
I didn’t see any mortar in the cartoon either, so what we basically have is a machine that stacks blocks, brilliant
There is a compound of some sort been sprayed onto brick before its layed
Yup, it can make the house in two days but will break a lot of homes forever…..
There is a nozzle spraying mortar on the brick just before it gets laid.
My nozzle normally sprays it’s loads while I get laid and not before. Just saying
It can even lay blocks without mortar. Now that’s a feat I’d like to see.!!
That’s the breakfast roll goosed so …!
Why is it a good thing Graham Galvin. Does it free up more would be tradesmen to fulfil their dream of creating another start up that either goes nowhere or kills off more employees.
Capitalism fallacy.
The most likely advance will be 3D printing. using new alloys etc they can now simply printout full size buildings. this had already been done, along with a a bridge which was basically made on the go.
Omg wot a load of shit
what about the butt joints?
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