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EVERY SATURDAY ON TheJournal.ie, we bring you a selection of the statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
20: The number of years Twitter has taken on a lease for two floors of a Dublin building.
€4.75 million: The cost of repairs to a Dublin apartment block due to fire safety problems that are leaving residents facing evictions.
16: The number of wheels on a Virgin truck Richard Branson rolled into town on this week.
12: The number of years Dubliners may have to wait for the revamped Metro North project.
120,000: The number of retweets on Edward Snowden’s first tweet within three days of him joining the social network.
€1.85 billion: The sale value of a Nama portfolio which includes the Dundrum Town Centre.
9: The weight, in stones, lost by a Dublin woman after gastric bypass surgery.
€1,500: What a 90-year-old woman was ordered to pay for having a satellite dish on her house.
€556,000: What the State saves every year after the closure of 139 garda stations.
80,000: The number of Volkswagen cars to be recalled in Ireland in the wake of emissions cheating revelations.
> 1,000,000,000: More than one billion Android devices are at risk from a flaw that can infect devices with they preview an audio or video file.
72: The total years in jail given to a gang of seven men who carried out a terrifying raid on a Tipperary family.
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Wow. To be the 7th least failed state in the world is mindblowing… simply for the thought that most are in a worse position than us!
We are better than canada! And the usa not bad
Am I reading that right? Only three other EU members are less failed states than Ireland is?
God that must really irritate the crew who consider us a complete banana republic.
i thought everything in the nordic countries was top banna. seeings they are always held up as the ones to be like
That article doesn’t make a whole pile of sense..
This ranking is not about quality of life, etc. like some comments suggest you read that. It’s about peace and military risks in particular countries.
I suppose it’s “our” fault that seven of the ten worst countries are in Africa.
Haiti was a cesspit ever before the tragedy there, sadly, and now they’ve turned to raping one another.
Iraq and Afghanistan are a whole other story!
Hail the baldy Nazis dem dam nigras don’t have a clue
You’re some gowl.
I hope we can move up near Switzerland at some stage. Tighter borders, lower-taxes, and they have their own currency!!!
Lower taxes? Really? Any mid Europe states i’ve lived in were thieves when it came to tax! (admittedly i’ve not lived in Switzerland, but it is one of my favourite places!)
really this is propaganda somalia is not leading top list there is bit exageration we aware of that somalia is devastated country and failure state indicating humanitarian crises and human rights abuses ,killing ,abducting, hijacking raping but there is still hope to survive this condition we are not hopeless our people still struggling to control there live style and to restore the country peace and stability so that we are not top list becouse this means no hope
Sorry, but what is actually your point, I struggle to understand? Thanks.
I think the point was that “there is hope”.
And yes, if other countries stopped interfering, there probably would be. For example:
“The United States has quietly poured weapons and military advisers into Ethiopia, whose recent invasion of Somalia opened a new front in the Bush administration’s war on terrorism …” etc etc. 1/8/2007
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