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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.
60,000ft: The amount of retail and leisure space Liffey Valley Shopping Centre will have after it was granted planning permission for a major expansion.
6,388: The number of children who were in care last year in Ireland, according to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
€183.2 million: The amount of money taken in by the State in Capital Acquisitions Tax (which is applied to gifts inheritances) in 2015, marking a 65% increase since 2011.
1: The position of the sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys on the list of best British sitcoms of the century.
€1,520: The average rent in Dublin, up 11.1% since last year.
€139,025: The amount of money a woman won in the National Lottery after she found a winning ticket in her handbag.
3,000: The number of new student residencies UCD is planning to build as part of its campus development plan.
20%: The maximum percentage of alcoholic drink now allowed at Stanford University, after a new policy was brought in to ban strong spirits.
4: The number of batches of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream that had to be recalled in Ireland due to the possible presence of metal pieces.
6: The number of years Oscar Pistorius is serving for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. A South African judge yesterday rejected the state’s appeal seeking a longer sentence for Paralympian.
101.4 million: The number of passengers Ryanair carried last year, prompting it to call itself the ’world’s favourite airline’.
With all the problems and obstacles
They are doing a great job.
Well done to all.
@Eddie Benson: the target was end of June was it not? easy to make target if you keep moving the goalposts
@dublindamo: let me guess your are a sein fein fan?
@Eddie Benson: I’m not so sure about the great job. Yes, there have been vaccine delivery limits and whatnot, but some other EU countries faced the same issues and the same vaccine numbers (percentage-wise per population), yet they are already vaccinating 16+ and pretty much everybody who wants it – you can book a jab for the next day. So yeah, something still isn’t working right here.
@MrJohne: anything but. Just speaking the truth
@dublindamo: exactly, while there does seem to be an excelleration in jabs. The target has casually drifted by a month. No mention of the fact 60 to 69s will be 4 months before second dose etc. I would actually consider leaving the country if sinn féin are in government but the fact is the vaccine roll out have missed their own target and are glossing over it.
@Peter Peterski: which ones? We all get an equal percentage of vaccines and there’s none sitting around
In fairness once they get the vaccines no time being wasted getting it into people.
Great news
Wasn’t it meant to be 80% by June or was that changed again recently??
@Michael Healy: It was always by the end of June, so nothing has changed.
@Mark Wallace: Except now scheduled to hit 80% in early July, not the end of June. That’s what’s changed.
@Mark Wallace: It says early July in the article. That could be a difference of 3 weeks or more. Hardly qualifies as nothing’s changed. Things are still moving along though.
@JedBartlett: Ransomware attack and Johnson and johnson not hitting its production numbers.
@michael: How can it be the difference of 3 weeks or more? End of June original target early July the new one. 3 weeks from the end of June is past mid July not early July. Honest to go Micko, come on. it’s like saying early in the morning is 4pm.
@michael: It say July 3rd in the article. That’s not exactly much change from the end of June.
@Ally Mc Culladgh: The end of June and early July are vague targets. End of June could be a week before, early July a week or two into the month. I’ll give you the ‘or more’ part may have been a stretch. But that’s as far as I’m conceding :)
Fantastic job. Knew we could do it. Let’s keep the foot down and look forward to better days from end of June.
High risk people in Cohort 7 are being forgotten. Not vaccinated by GP and told to wait until age is called
@CarmelOh: that’s it, use a blatant lie so you can say something negative about the system
@CarmelOh: is the issue there not with your GPS and no one else ?
@CarmelOh: need to get a better GP. There’s GPs lashing vaccinations into healthy 30 year olds but now as they are out of cohort 7. Theyre doing second jabs for 4 and 7. Giving the spares to patients
@CarmelOh: I’m 21 and in cohort 7 and got vaccinated on Tuesday along with hundreds of others. Your personal experience does not equal the general reality.
@CarmelOh: I’m in cohort seven and I got my first jab three weeks ago so it’s down to your GP forgetting cohort seven people clearly, not the system.
@CarmelOh: same as that. Rang my Gp to enquire and she said they were still doing it by age.
@Mark Brown: many GPS didn’t opt in for cohort 4 or 7. HSE are setting up a portal for referral to a vaccine centre but it has been delayed by the hack. Advised to wait until age cohort is called at this stage
@Bernard Mc Grath: not exactly, my GP is depending on vaccine deliveries from the HSE. Apparently they get 100-200 doses once every 2-3 weeks and there’s a long waiting list (it’s a relatively large clinic)… At this rate I will get it through the age groups system faster…
@CarmelOh: Change your GP. I got called by mine and I know others that got called by theres.
I’m 40 in group 7 and as my GP is not doing under 70s I have to wait for my age to get called as I’m also not under the care of a consultant and the portal for my GP to register me never materialised due to the hack.
#TheForgottenCohorts
Gas how even with nearly half the country with a first dose they’re still talking as if they would love another lockdown
@Adam Ford: you’re reading it at they’d love another lockdown.
They don’t want lockdowns but as a strategy it kept lots of people alive and many more out of hospitals.
It’s a case of doing something very bad to avoid something much worse.
Go take a walk and stop being so negative.
I really believe that it’s not on track there are people like myself who should have been vaccinated over 4 weeks ago and we still can’t get an appointment the helpline is a joke if you ring it they “escalate” your query and guess what nothing is done I’ve even had a call from a HSE “manager” still no appointment
@Sharon Keating:
Get on to your GP, seems they have plenty of vaccines, my GP has being vaccinating last weekend, this weekend and next weekend
@Sharon Keating: what age range are you in if you don’t mind me asking?
@Sharon Keating: are you in Meath by any chance? My Dad in the same boat, hes 66 and so sign of an appointment. Fobbed off every day on the helpline. He went to the helix today just before 6 to see if they had any leftover and the place was closed
@Jackie Moore: My Mam had the same problem, also in Meath (Dublin border) was advised to present at Citywest last Sunday as had registered 4 weeks ago and still had no appt. She was turned away from Citywest as they had no AZ left but received an text to go to the Helix last Wed and received the Pfizer vaccine. She’ll now be fully vaccinated before my Dad, who reveived AZ a few weeks ago and would be far more vulnerable. In any event, we’re relieved they’ve now both received their first dose!
Got vaccinated in the Helix this morning with the Janssen vaccine, about 60 boots, in and out within 5 minutes , very efficient, they kept filling the boots, they must do easily 500 people in one hour
Terraces opened in France on Wednesday, the Italians eating and drinking until 10 or 11pm too for a while now.
Europe is opening now, what is the Irish plan ?
Countries starting to welcome foreigners all over the shop..
Getting close to the end of May now so they should be sitting down soon to make a plan for June..
Is everyone that wants to go back to work allowed to go back or what’s the craic ?
got min janssen one yesterday 55.one shot and done! bit lethargic today and a sore arm
@ed w: oh and open the pubs and restaurants (in 2 weeks :) )
I say this every year.. why the f do we not said something uniquely Irish??? We have unique music culture and style in almost every county in the country but yet rte still persevere with the same old trip€…
@wormtubes: eh? Eurovision?
Data was patchy before the cyber attack. Dodgy would describe it better.
Simon covney was minster for affairs one stage this should sorted your technical systems yrs ago this coming from Corkman stay out lovely people.
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