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How many people tuned in to watch Pat Kenny's return to television? It's the week in numbers

Plus: How many people are employed in the hospitality industry?

EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.

€70 million: The amount of money the Irish founder of a promising US space startup is hoping to secure to help prevent his company from shutting down.

204,000: The number of people employed in the Irish hospitality industry. Industry heads called for lower tax on alcohol in this year’s budget.

80%: The percentage of properties that people on rent supplement can’t afford to rent, according to a report from the Simon Community.

13: The number of premises slapped with closure notices over food safety fears last month.  

36: The number of AIBA boxing judges that were stood down this week pending the result of an investigation into officiating at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

180,000: The number of people who tuned in to TV3 for the first episode of Pat Kenny Tonight on Wednesday.

26%: The approval rating of Ireland’s top parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil according to the latest opinion poll.

90p: The amount of money €1 could get you in sterling yesterday after the pound suffered a “flash crash”.

40%: The percentage of extra time girls spend doing chores, according to a new UN report.

€7.5 million: The amount of money Ireland is giving to help Syrians affected by the country’s five-year civil war.

€20,000: The amount of money stolen from the Cliffs of Moher visitor centre by thieves.

30,000: The number of dogs produced in puppy farms a year, according to the DSPCA.

80%: The percentage of Irish people that think the old age pension needs to be increased.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 4:00 PM

    Merely doing what should be done. If there is no will on the part of those who should be following up on this kind of material than go ahead Assange and Anonymous

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    Mute Derek Durkin
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    Feb 27th 2012, 3:28 PM

    Nothing mindblowing so far but still paints a good picture of what is going on around Europe and the world in general at the moment. Cant imagine it helping Assange thou, dudes on a fast track to Gitmo.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 5:05 PM

    I don’t agree with this action at all. As far as I’m concerned, STRATFOR is probably the only source of reliable intelligence and information available on issues such as Iran, free of political and ideological bias.

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    Mute Andrew
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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:15 AM

    Reliable? Free of bias?

    On the first point, they are incredibly unreliable. Have you even read any of their email exchanges on Iran? They made ridiculously sloppy assumptions based on poor data that any idiot who reads a newspaper could make.

    In one particular exchange, one analyst merely asserted that Israel destroyed some of Iran’s infrastructure, totally baseless on any evidence and according to his colleague, extremely unlikely.

    During today’s Frontline Club conference (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20736311) One of the reporters, Yassin al Saadi, in the middle east described Stratfor’s understanding of Middle Eastern situation as extremely poor. “Stratfor are an institution that seems completely disconnected from the political and social realities of the situations they cover.” “Stratfor lack Arabic speakers or experts, and over-rely on single sources.”

    On the second point, their CEO is George Friedman, who is heavily influenced by the non-conservative agenda. He wrote a book on it. Not to mention that they are partnered with Goldman Sachs’. Stratfor are nothing if not biased. The middle eastern reporter also commented Stratfor’s outlook was fundamentally racist against Arabs.

    Also, they’re an intelligence company so incompetent they didn’t even have their emails secured. They included credit card numbers, unencrypted. They had contact details of all their sources, all unencrypted. http://goo.gl/nG4ch.

    Totally incompetent. Corrupt and ill-informed.

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    Mute Andrew
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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:16 AM

    That was in reply to Daithi, btw.

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    Mute Danny Kelly
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    Feb 27th 2012, 7:08 PM

    Wikileaks trying to stay relevant before Assange’s deportation case is decided, Anon purely in it for the lulz, still doesn’t answer the big problem I have with both – Who hacks the hackers?

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    Mute Andrew
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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:19 AM

    Wow Danny, you’re so informed. TELL ME MORE.

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