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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.
250,000 - The number of people left without electricity at the height of the storm on Wednesday.
250,000 – The number of households living on less than €15,000 per year, according to new research.
13,000 – The number of IBRC mortgages which are to be sold on the open market.
€1,210 - The average monthly rent in Dublin, which has surged ahead of the rest of the country where the average rent is now €865.
64 – The number of prisoners who have escaped from custody in the past eighteen years who have not been recaptured.
30 tonnes – The amount of Superquinn sausages sold in SuperValu shops every week, apparently.
25 metres – The height of a wave off the coast of Kinsale on Wednesday afternoon, the highest ever recorded in Irish coastal waters.
22 – The percentage of 15 and 16-year-olds who have received a sexual message online.
18 – The age that people will have to be to use sunbeds once the Dail passes its planned new legislation.
9.8 – The percentage of women taking part in a trial of a new female-Viagra-style drug who became sleepy while using it. Back to the drawing board with that one.
3 – The number of years in prison a Belfast man has been sentenced to serve after he walked into a London police station and told an officer he wanted to kill Prince Harry.
2.2 – The effective percentage of tax that US multinationals in Ireland paid – far lower than the figure quoted by Taoiseach Enda Kenny – according to new research from Trinity College Dublin.
Big mistake getting rid of the Superquinn brand. It should be the other way round. Lose the SuperValu brand. Big mistake by the owners.
There are more Supervalu stores around the country than Superquinns. Many of the Supervalu stores are independently owned. They would have had to all agree to change the name of their particular store. That would have been an absolute nightmare to organise. In comparison to this change that all in all has gone pretty smoothly
Well said. All the former SuperQuinns will have the same staff and so on? The name changes but the service the same. Supervalu is a community store.
Exactly! When people say “oh it’s not the same, Superquinn had amazing quality etc etc” it’s really insulting to the staff. They didn’t ask for the name change and they are doing the exactly same job in the same way just with a name over the door. It’s hard to do a good job when people insult you straight to your face.
Sausages- but how many?
30 tonnes = 66,138 pounds.
16 sausages to each pound and you have 1,058,208.
I just want 4 and two slices of bread. Nom nom.
But are we talking long tonnes, short tonnes or metric tonnes? Different results in all of them.
We are metric these days, where have you been? We switched over more than 30 years ago. 1 kilo is about 2.2 pounds.
2.204623 to be exact! Remind me to never try selling you sausages by the ton from the states;)
Had superquinn sausages for brekkie this morning! Great hangover cure!!!!!
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