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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.
€760,747: The average price of a home in Do4 in Dublin 4. Making it the most expensive eircode area to buy a home, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office.
5: The number of years that patients in Cork are on average waiting for cataract surgery.
€100,000: The cash prize won by American author Emily Ruskovich at the 2019 International Dublin Literary Awards for her novel Idaho.
7: The number of food businesses that were ordered to partially or fully close after being found in breach of food safety legislation in May.
100: The number of sheep allegedly stolen from a farm in Co Meath.
€160,000: The tender issued for on-site fitness instructors at the gym next to Leinster House.
€50 million: The amount of money paid out by the government through the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme in the first three months of the year. It had planned to spend €200m on the mortgage scheme over three years.
11: The number of years that the Dingle International Film Festival ran for before being forced to close this year due to a lack of funding.
2: The number of years that Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as Trump’s press secretary for. Sanders announced she will leave the role at the end of this month.
556,411: The number of patients who were waiting for their first outpatient consultation at the end of May.
257: The number of times that gardaí have used pepper spray so far this year.
18: The number of hours of hacked material that Radiohead has released with the proceeds all going to support the Extinction Rebellion climate change resistance campaign
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