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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.
€222 million – the price paid by French football club Paris St-Germain for Barcelona’s Brazilian superstar Neymar.
15 – if you multiplied the amount paid for Neymar fifteen times, you would get around the figure that Irish Water says will be needed between now and 2021 to invest in 673km of old water pipes.
€800 – the amount it costs to send a secondary student back to school in September.
€5,000 – the amount that some social welfare recipients can earn by working part-time at a dairy farm for a year.
70 – the number of people, many of them teenagers, who got into difficulty on the Mourne Mountains before being rescued on Wednesday.
€1.7 million – the amount that has been spent by government ministers on taxis, car hire and limos over the past two years.
12 – the number of inmates that escaped from an Alabama jail using some ingenuity and a dollop of peanut butter.
30 – the age that the National Lottery turned this week. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar appeared on Wednesday’s broadcast of the lotto numbers.
7 – the number of priests turned away from a Welsh pub after being mistaken for a stag do.
€495,000 – the earnings of RTÉ’s highest paid star, Ryan Tubridy, in 2015.
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Many more watch Neymar’s every game – than several seasons of GAA games combined…
@Frank Cooney: Watch (worldwide)…keep up m8¡
@Frank Cooney: On the Radio? No, satellite TV…
People seem to have convinced themselves that the funding for Neymar’s fee is taken directly out of NHS nurses’ purses.
Saw the headline and thought neymar was a plumber!!
How many millions have we already spent on Irish water due to lack of a proper plan. They repaired a leak in co Meath last week to create a political storm. We subsequently found out about the fact that they had information on the leaks for over 12 months. The number of time Naymers value is irrelevant. We don’t have any such quality players in this country.
A noisy kip.
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