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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.
$802,000,000: The amount of profit that Facebook made between July and September of this year. That’s almost $9 million per day and some $363,000 per hour.
€2,500: The amount of money that a judge ordered should be donated to charity after Italian businessman Roberto Binaschi wrote the words ‘Attenzione Ebola’ on a coffee cup on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin.
2,100+: The number of people who are on the Fair Deal waiting list for nursing homes right now.
112: The number of years that New Zealand has had its current flag. It will vote on whether to retain it in a referendum in 2016.
54: The number of days until Christmas (we’re allowed to talk about it now that Halloween is over, right?).
30+: The number of times that Stephen Gough, known as the Naked Rambler has been arrested in Scotland for being naked in public. A European court ruled this week that being naked is not freedom of expression.
24: The number of hours that farmers protested for outside meat plants around the country at the start of this week.
22: The percentage of people in Ireland who think the 1916 Easter Rising was unnecessary.
10.6%: The increase in the child poverty rate in Ireland during the recession, according to new figures.
3: The number of paintings by some of Ireland’s most famous artists which were stolen from a house in Wicklow last week.
0: The number of people from West African countries who are being allowed to enter Australia, under tough new rules to try to prevent the virus from spreading. Australia has been widely criticised for the move.
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Speaking of numbers, your article on the protest is titled “Tens of thousands protest against water charges”. A conservative estimate puts the total at over 150,000.
Considering the weather people braved today to march, the least you could do is give proper credit to the number in attendance.
Well, uh, ah….150 is “tens”. It’s bloody fifteen of them.
So 22% think the 1916 rising was a bad idea! Who do they think paved the way for their lives today!
I think life today is nothing like what the 1916 leaders dreamed.
They were trying to shed crony-capitalism, and now the state is built on it.
Fair play to you mate and we must never forget
Uprising 01nov 2014. Election now. Fg/labour have no mandate.
Surely the Week in Numbers finishes on a high note – With SF the most Popular Political Party in The 26 Counties on 26% ?
More bad news for Enda , Joan & Micheal !!!
I reckon seeing the extremely serious issues raised by the Mairia Cahill case being turned into a tawdry political point scoring exercise by the establishment parties has fooled nobody and has in fact backfired spectacularly on them.
The same mrs Cahill who was/is a member of a dissident republican group?
Thousands marched in Mullingar today and I saw no mention of it anywhere.
Sinn Fein will get in. Gerry will take them to 2015 and conveniently resign to shed all doubt of the links to former lives etc etc. Mary will lead.
Was this an illegal group? Did she do anything illegal? Was she in it for more than 10 seconds? Do you feel your statement belittles or demeans her? Are you really excited by trying to rub her face in the dirt? Are you a troll? Is it wet under your bridge mr Troll?
The numbers of people at any public meeting/march can be scientifically measured and usually falls way below the guesstimates and wishful thinking of the organisers.
But if it was an fg rally you’d up the numbers
Foggy can always be counted on for a good laugh.
Yep “The numbers of people at any public meeting/march can be scientifically measured and usually falls way below the guesstimates and wishful thinking of the organisers” but seamus is not up to things as complicated. Organisations that have to deal with large numbers of people have devised tried and tested ways of counting numbers.
What the fugg has my comment got to to do with any ‘fg rally’ thetruth? Are you another all mouth and trousers like seamus?
The people or amounts of them that go on the protests are not the entire amount of people that are against the water charges ,the government know that and that’s what scares them
The first US Ebola case was 88 days after the 4th July
Halloween is 88 days after Obamas Birthday.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!
It does not matter what the numbers were in 1916 we would be a very sad nation indeed if we were to forget those that gave themselves up to free our land. I may not be here to see it happen but 32 counties has got to be the ultimate objective
Well said Harrry.
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