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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.
2 billion +: The number of 1c and 2c coins which have been issued by the Central Bank since the introduction of the euro totalling around €35 million.
300 million: The number of users photo-sharing social network Instagram says it has as of this week.
92 million: The number of times that the word ‘selfie’ has been mentioned on Twitter since 1 January.
35,000: The estimated number of people who turned out for a protest against the water charges in Dublin city centre on Wednesday afternoon.
2,500: The number of miles that a Dutch woman travelled in a Massey Ferguson tractor to reach the South Pole this week.
1,774: The number of former staff members of Waterford Crystal set to receive pensions after a settlement was approved by government, five years after the employees were laid off.
71: The percentage of people who say they will vote yes in the upcoming same-sex marriage referendum, according to a poll this week.
70: The percentage of Irish men who are overweight or obese in Ireland.
44: The percentage of Irish people who have had a problem with a product or service that they paid for in the past year.
27: The number of years that a US man spent in prison for a murder he never committed before his conviction was quashed this week.
15.7: The height in metres of a wave off the coast of Donegal this week, which set a new record.
0.25%: The percentage of tax Disney paid on just over €1 billion in profits, according to new revelations on Luxembourg tax deals revealed this week.
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How about….. 70,000 – 100,000.The (other) estimated number of people who turned out for a protest against the water charges in Dublin city centre on (a freezing cold) Wednesday afternoon.
What protest were you at ? There was no were near the amount you just stayed above
This might help you get a rough estimate.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/12/11/the-final-countdown-3/#comments
and this…..
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=637100216402141
There probably was around 50k. A lot of people walked down towards the back of the Dáil with the crowd then left as it was getting fairly squashed towards the end of the road. People were cold and they didn’t want to spend the day standing around listening to propaganda. Future marches if anything should be marches from one side of of the city to the other and then be dissolved immediately afterwards so commuters don’t get bog down later on.
80000 to fill croke park.i was at the march Merrion Sq half full and all the way as far as o’connell st at 2.30 I left at 3 o’clock along with a lot more who had traveld long distances but as we were leaving the area ther was also more turning up so the numbers seen at any one time was less than the total amount that visited the protest. And I don’t think croke park would hold them all.its a good job it wasn’t on a Saturday imagen the crowds then.
A workmate of mine who gets the evening herald delivered to his house told me it was delivered at
2 30 and the headline was 30,000 at protest. Methinks 30,000 was the most they were ever going to admit to.
I’m an obese tractor driver and I used to own shares in Waterford Crystal. It’s about time we had our moment in the sun.
Thank you Christine!
Can we get a figure on how many uniformed police, plain clothes police, police with dogs, riot gear etc etc were ready to tackle people on Wednesday gone?
It seemed disproportionate to previous protests.
have your say