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How many homes and businesses lost their power during Storm Ophelia? It's the week in numbers

Plus: How many deaths are linked to pollution every year?

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

200,000: The number of people who marched through the streets of Catalonia on Tuesday, protesting against the detention of two Catalan separatist leaders.

12: the number of years since Cork City’s last Premier Division title, before it secured the trophy this week.

385,000: The peak number of homes that lost electricity on Monday as Storm Ophelia blew in off the Atlantic.

25%: The percentage of Irish employers that experienced a workplace dispute last year, according to a new survey.

5: The number of days that Irish Rail workers will go on strike for in November and December.

21: The number of years ago that the Jenalisa sank off the coast of Waterford. A box from the vessel washed up on the Clare coast this week after Storm Ophelia.

52: The number of child protection referrals per day that Tusla received last year.

9 million: The number of deaths linked to pollution around the world in 2015.

70: The age of former Dubliners guitarist Eamonn Campbell, before he died this week.

€700: The price some ticket touts are charging for tickets to Ireland’s World Cup playoff against Denmark.

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    Mute Lance Taylor
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    Apr 8th 2025, 7:45 PM

    Hot school dinners for every child’s belly should be mandatory in Ireland. Some of these kids aren’t fed at home.

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    Mute Meh Meh
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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:02 PM

    @Lance Taylor: I’d be more in favour of this, never having it myself. Yet as a full time worker, and payer of taxes since I left school, our money goes into business suit pockets, not scruffy jeans.

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    Mute Bri Lye
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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:16 PM

    @Lance Taylor: if parents aren’t using benefit money to feed kids then their payments need reducing.

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    Mute Brian Molloy
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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:45 PM

    @Lance Taylor: it’s the age old adage,if you can’t feed them don’t breed them

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    Mute Karen Marten
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    Apr 9th 2025, 10:10 AM

    @Lance Taylor: yes but made on site not pre made and reheated give them freshly made food nothing processed . Some of the gunk served in my dd school looks revolting. She will try lots of foods last week her lunch she said tasted like medicine. They just need to come up with proper food ideas and come up with ideas of choice s and that s it don’t like send in lunch of own

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    Mute RP McGuinness
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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:02 PM

    That her feeling was – “absolute relief” – says it all really.

    Parents these days want everyone else to do their job for them.

    They should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

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    Mute Clare Power
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    Apr 8th 2025, 9:22 PM

    @RP McGuinness: I’m going guess you have never pulled your hair out of an evening trying to serve up a dinner, supervise homework and organise everything for the next day for a group of kids…you obviously let someone else do it whilst judging others..

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    Mute Daniel Wilson
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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:57 PM

    @RP McGuinness: alright granddad back to your porridge

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    Apr 9th 2025, 9:06 AM

    @Clare Power: It’s called parenting. It’s not the job of the State to rear your sprogs.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 7:48 PM

    Does this girl ever stop whinging about everything

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    Apr 8th 2025, 7:50 PM

    @Cian Halley: whilst normally it’s just AI generated bitching…… this article does have a ring of truth & sense about it

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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:00 PM

    @Mary Linton: hullo mary

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    Apr 8th 2025, 9:01 PM

    @Charles Okumbu:
    Who the fcuk thumbs up hullo Mary.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 11:42 PM

    @Thomas O’Brien: lol

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    Apr 9th 2025, 12:00 AM

    @Charles Okumbu:
    You won’t be laughing out loud if Mary accuses you of stalking her.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:51 PM

    We have a golden opportunity to provide children with a wholesome, nutritional meal. We should be fighting for it and not thinking that any old slop is good enough. Other European countries can deliver high quality hot meals to their children and we should demand no less.
    It’s certainly not a question of being precious, it’s a question of demanding the best for our kids.

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    Apr 9th 2025, 12:29 AM

    @Mary L: Hear hear.

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    Apr 9th 2025, 5:59 AM

    @Mary L: always had a hot lunch when I was at school,chips were a treat, decent 2 course mean was provided in both primary and secondary, pupils bought a meal ticket for the day that they wanted a hot meal,and the kids who couldn’t afford it had free school meals .
    Mind you I grew up in the north so…….

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    Apr 9th 2025, 7:14 AM

    @Mike Doe:
    Are you related to John Doe.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:14 PM

    Insufferable nonsense is all this one writes

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    Apr 9th 2025, 9:22 AM

    @Liam Boyle: pointless article

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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:33 PM

    Jesus wept, what next.

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    Mute Meh Meh
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    Apr 8th 2025, 7:59 PM

    Try bringing up seven kids, with three separate fathers (two in prison), in a rented council flat in West Dublin, and you’re being ‘no-fault’ evicted in six months, because the Landpersons ‘Sister is coming back from America and needs somewhere to crash’.
    Meanwhile all the kids are trying to get to grips with cardboard origami lessons on YouTube, for when you all have to live on the streets, no money, no address for bills, or supplimental support structures, eating from Saint Vincent de Paul, or bins.

    Then come back to me, with a real sob story.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:16 PM

    @Meh Meh:
    Have you heard of contraception.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:18 PM

    @Meh Meh: why you having 7 kids without a house … others are not here to pay tax to support your expanding family.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:54 PM

    @Bri Lye:
    Apparently she is working full time and paying taxes.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 8:59 PM

    @Meh Meh: You’re not for real are you??

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    Apr 8th 2025, 9:28 PM

    @Philip Kennedy:
    That’s a bit rude.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 9:58 PM

    @Meh Meh: Try bringing up seven kids,try sleeping in the spare room.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:15 PM

    @Deano74:
    With seven kids, there is no spare room.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:25 PM

    @Thomas O’Brien: I was waiting on that one.There would off been if she taught of it sooner.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:48 PM

    @Deano74:
    I still say contraception is the one.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:50 PM

    @H Woo:
    I don’t wear jockeys, I wear briefs.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:52 PM

    @Thomas O’Brien: The spare room is cheaper.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 10:58 PM

    @Deano74:
    Contraception is free for women, but you need a room to get it on.

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    Apr 9th 2025, 2:10 PM

    @Philip Kennedy: I don’t look for pity Man. Quite the opposite.

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    Apr 8th 2025, 11:57 PM

    Spaghetti bolo,sausages and mash! that’s a luxury, try bringing your child up eating halal.

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    Mute Ed Brennan
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    Apr 9th 2025, 7:56 AM

    There is nothing wrong with this food, other than it is halal, blessed by an imam, offered to allah, and served to Christian children, in Christian schools, in a Christian country.,, there be forcing them to break the 1st Commandment.

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    Apr 9th 2025, 9:03 AM

    C’mon Margaret – you’ve 2 lovely kids stop whining about parenting them. Try and relax and enjoy them growing up.

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    Mute William Maloney
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    Apr 9th 2025, 12:47 PM

    Hot lunches for children are a good idea. Let stop worrying about what they are eating so long as they are being fed!!

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    Apr 9th 2025, 11:32 PM

    @William Maloney: yeah, stuff the innocent kids with cheap ultra processed food and pay for the obesity crisis down the line

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