EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
14: The age under which children should not be allowed to use mobile phones with internet access, according to a new proposed bill being brought forward by a Fine Gael TD.
47: The age of music producer Robert Miles before he died this week.
€50 million: The amount of money Irish Water plans to spend to upgrade the existing sewer network serving Blanchardstown and surrounding areas.
10,000: The amount of times more powerful than morphine a new drug that’s circulating in Northern Ireland is.
€6.1 million: The value of one of the winning tickets of the €12.3 million Lotto jackpot, which was stored in a gun cabinet in their home in order to keep it safe before cashing it.
€2,750: The cost per month for rent of a three bedroom apartment at new development in south Dublin.
61,439: The number of cases of treatment for problem drug use in Ireland between 2009 and 2015.
€2.02 billion: The amount of money Snapchat’s parent company lost in its first quarterly results since its share offering earlier this year.
2,000: The number of reindeer to be killed in Norway in an attempt to eradicate a brain-destroying disease.
0: The number of vehicles that will be able to drive on College Green from later this year, if ambitious plans for the site get the go ahead.
62.7%: The percentage of people who live in urban areas in Ireland, according to Census 2016.
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