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A view of Ireland's longest bridge, in New Ross, Co. Wexford, during the official opening.
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A view of Ireland's longest bridge, in New Ross, Co. Wexford, during the official opening.
Image: PA Wire/PA Images
EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
2: The number of schools in south Dublin that closed for a number of days after electricity failed, leaving their classrooms without light or heat.
4.25cm: The length of a chicken bone found by doctors at a Dublin hospital operating on an elderly patient who had complained of stomach pains.
887m: The length of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge - Ireland’s longest – which was officially opened by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Rose Katherine Kennedy Townsend this week in Co Wexford.
6: The number of NCT test centres that have recommenced underbody inspections for a limited number of drivers.
3: The number of Irish citizens evacuated from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan in China who have been quarantined in a UK hospital.
2: The number of babies delivered in one day with the help of Dublin firefighters.
450: The number of jobs BBC is to axe as part of a €95m cost-cutting measure.
17: Dublin’s ranking out of the 416 most congested cities in the world, according to an index which monitors and analyses traffic in major urban centres.
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