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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.
35: The number of years Gerry Adams has been leader of Sinn Féin. He advertised his replacement on his personal blog.
60: The speed in km/h that drivers on the M7 between Junction 9 & Junction 10 are being asked to drive at while road works are ongoing, until 2020.
36%: The percentage of women who have a pension, compared with 55% of men, according to a survey from Standard Life.
1: Cardboard Gangsters was the number one grossing Irish made movie from last year.
13%: The percentage of Irish teenagers who have sent a nude or semi-nude video of themselves, according to a new survey.
67.3: The number of “healthy life years” a person born in Ireland can be expected to live, according to a Wellbeing of the Nation report.
29,000: The number of hardcover copies of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury that were sold in its first week of publication in the US.
9: The number of centimetres a Japanese astronaut said he had grown in space, before he retracted the claim after remeasuring himself.
10: Here are the 10 albums battling it out for album of the year for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize.
13,000: The number of tourists who were trapped in a Swiss ski resort after heavy snowfall this week.
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On the 16th of Jan 2016 Leo pledged to abolish USC to gain votes!!! Look how that’s worked out so far 7 years on.
@Colm Kane: totally agree, and to abolish it would help the government in the long run. More money flowing in the economy, so more indirect tax.
@Aileen Lawlor: sure didn’t Pat Rabbite basically come out and say that election promises are meant to be broken.
@Michael Dowling: A load of rubbish Micheal. Sure let’s have no income tax, imagine all the money flowing into the economy! For most people it’ll just mean more money in their bank account at the end of the month.
It’s almost like they’re trying to convince us they’re different from each other.
Pull the other one Minister FG are up to their usual tricks and it needs to be called out as it is-vote catching.
Is there anything for those on 30- 35k a year?
No.
There never is. The real squeezed
@Barry Donnelly: the new poor last budget we were the fools left totally behind , no double weeks , emergency payments , and even if you weren’t working you were better off between 12 and 20 a week, Over 40 k 20 quid a week on 30 k about 2 quid a week , because Fine Gael know we won’t vote for them , and the next budget will be the same ,
@Barry Donnelly: 100% correct!!! Its absolutely disgraceful that the last budget left those earning 40k+ per year up €16 per week, Social welfare recipients up €12 per week, and those earning 30k up €3 per week. It’s completely disproportionate.
@Barry Donnelly: the new poor last budget we were the fools left totally behind , no double weeks , emergency payments , and even if you weren’t working you were better off between 12 and 20 a week, Over 40 k 20 quid a week on 30 k about 2 quid a week , because Fine Gael know we won’t vote for them , and the next budget will be the same , but
@NotMyIreland: completely agree with this, 3 euro a week is a paltry increase during high inflation, and it appears the powers that be are indicating a similar plan for this bracket of workers next year.
Dara Calleary FF on Drive time defending FG…Like his Boss Martin , they know their political survival depends on keeping Varadkar and FG happy..even Ryan is panicking when he stated FFG should kiss and make up. Martin has discovered like the Labour party when you become more Blueshirt than the Blueshirts..you are finished. Amazing how FG now discover the squeezed middle class…The conveniently fail to mention they did nothing concerning this soundbite until there is an election on the horizon…Seems there is no room on the FG lifeboat for Martin and FF.
Could u imagine a td elected by people to speak for them?instead of having tds telling us how things will go ….ffg has lost every vote
The Minister of Justice’s comments may be more about an impeding challenge to Varadkar as FG leader given the party’s poor ratings recently!
It doesn’t matter what they say or do, they will give it in hand and take it back in the other. They will wave at you with their left hand while the the right hand goes up your hole.
As the song goes, let’s go fly a kite!
Fooling nobody but themselves
Ryan must think we are all eight years old if that ‘will confuse us’. Just because the greens could not tax that it needed to be hidden from the not so bright Irish public.
Simon says, school game politics. Only one winner.
The entitled chancers frame of mind is all about covering everything up
another schoolboy playacting. These guys seem not to even know that it is the affairs of the country they are supposed to be managing..
What about Fine Gale Restoring the Private Pensons that Noonan Looted
Back in the Day
another schoolboy playacting. These guys seem not to even know that they have a country to ;look after.
Who votes these clowns in? Seriously will be the same outcome in next election and then we can all come on here and remember what they said last time and again and again? Same outcome.. They get elected they carry on the same circus of inertia..
Mary Poppins is alive and well in our political and media systems.
All together now
“Let’s go fly a kite – up to the highest height….
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