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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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166: The amount of muppets in Dail Eireann
I hope they reverse that €1500.00 or dismiss altogether – Drug addicts get away with lesser charges !
And solicitors get away with bigger charges!!! Think this has nothing to do with anyone caught up in the hell of addiction in all fairness.
@Kmk dont u mean drug dealers
I live in an apartment complex and I can see 4 dishes to the front all of which have been there for a few years and clearly visible from the main road.
What happened this old woman was wrong..
But..
Rules are rules, its my understanding that she had been issued with two letters ordering the removal of the offending dish.
Them letters were discarded.
Her age while tragic should not be taken into account.
Just my opinion, don’t leap on me.
Yes rules are rules – it’s just a pity that the old and vulnerable targets have to play by the rules, while certain sections of our society perpetually flaunt the laws, and get away scot free.
You mean like the rules the Moriarty tribunal ruled had been broken by Lowry and O Brien or the rules that Mc Namara broke while building those apartment blocks.
Never mind prosecution, they get more gravy train contracts.
1500
The auld dear wasn’t fined anything!
you’re right eircodes, she had to make a contribution towards costs, and even that was disgusting. I’d say over her 90 yesrs she has more than contributed to her country, and then the council have the gaul to send someone to spy on an old lady and her house, ands even more disgusting is the €800 tab for the prosecuting lawyer. Disgraceful waste of money by beaurocratic wasters.
Agreed
Who is the solicitor she is paying the fees of? Bit of publicity could be good for business!!!
Age in the same way ignorance cannot be used as an excuse!
The lady was given a number of warnings and letters and surely if she had any issues with understanding these letters or orders she would or should have asked her family for help! No use her family turning up after the mess!
Sean …Sometimes people get OLDER.YOU don’t understant, you are YOUNG.. please understant what it is like to BE Older. Thank You.
Correction. She wasn’t fined a cent. She was ordered to pay €1500 of the council’s fees. And the fees were over €2000.
Funny since this case came up on two roads beside me today I counted at least 32 dishes on the front of houses better not say where I live in case I give the ” Corpo” the heads up funny never noticed this before on my journey into work .
I never listen to or watch the bullshitters in RTE.
(Arts Riff-Raff.)
Yet RTE charges me for the crime of possessing a TV set.
“TV license” the Arts robbers call it.
It wasn’t a fine.
It was costs.
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