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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.
€1.06 billion - The size of the fine handed down to computer chip company Intel for abusing its dominant position in the market. Ouch.
20,000 - The number of Toyota cars being recalled in Ireland over a possible airbag defect.
6,000 - The approximate number of South Korean police who entered a religious compound to find the businessman wanted in connection with April’s ferry disaster.
3,679 - The number of women who had abortions in England and Wales last year who gave an Irish address. The figure is down 7.6 per cent on last year.
€764 - The average amount of money spent on First Communions for children, according to new research. Recession? What recession?
90 - The age that former US president George HW Bush turned on Thursday. He celebrated by doing a parachute jump.
70 - The percentage of people who would choose to work, when faced with situation where they would be better off financially by claiming social welfare, according to new ESRI research.
50 - The percentage of times that BMI can be wrong when testing whether someone is obese or not, according to research at NUI Maynooth.
43 - The percentage of Irish houses which are being bought by investors. The figure has more than tripled since last year.
12 - The number of files the Department of Health removed from the National Archives in the days after the revelations about mother and baby homes broke. The Department has now said the files will be returned.
4 - The percentage of support that the Labour Party now has, according to the most recent opinion poll.
3 - The number of Harley-Davidson motorbikes bought by the HSE for the National Ambulance Service.
She doesn’t know her art from her elbow!
@John Fairclough: drinking in the morning sun
@John Fairclough: Meetings, reports, chianti? Give the arts and artists financial backing, structural support, employment benefits, pensions and other supports to individual lower income artists, backing for new business start-ups etc.
Quango…. ah don’t you just love Ireland..
@windbag: I get what you’re saying but as Irish people we know the value of the arts more than most
@Brendan Lawlor: absolutely… but how many actual artists,performer’s and musicians will be asked for there opinion/solution…
Do they really need to say they’ll adopt a solution-focused approach? Should that not be a given on any ‘taskforce’
@Aidan O’ Neill: they probably hired a crack team of external consultants for a month to come up with a tag-line like that!
@Aidan O’ Neill: that was galling, indeed… oh, “solution-based”, you say? How novel!
More soft jobs for a few friends that have retired from the service.
Who else is on task force?
@Philip Howlin:
The usual shower of PHILISTINES blowing their own trumpets..
@Philip Howlin:
Good question, I would expect to see the a quango of of philistines blowing their own trumpets and out of tune too..
I hope it’s better than the aviation recovery task force. Their report was tossed aside and ignored!
The arts, music and live entertainment sector is struggling since long before covid whether it be lack of adequate creative spaces, live venues, and funding not on par with other eu countries, it will take years to recover. The creative arts can be directly linked to better mental health & well being, but we are all too busy trying to make ends meet & pay the bills…
The arts sector needs support, with studios, workspaces, venues for performances, etc. Ireland is world famous for our verse and music, now is the time to take this opportunity to forge a better, more substantial future for the arts in Ireland. Just think of the tourists!!!
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