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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.
€200,000: The amount that a coffee kiosk in Ballsbridge in Dublin has been placed on the market for.
€133,000: The value of the dress worn by Lupita Nyong’o to the Oscars last week, which was stolen from a hotel room afterwards. Oops.
3,458: The number of full-time staff at Eircom. The company has cut about one-third of its staff in the past two years.
€1,295: The amount Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin repayed this week for phone calls made from Leinster House to Kenya.
28: The age that Nick Leeson was when he brought down Barings Bank. This week was the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the bank.
16: The number of years that former popstar Gary Glitter was sentenced to on Friday for a string of sex attacks on schoolgirls.
13: The number of new episodes of House of Cards that went up on Netflix yesterday morning. (Need a catch up? Here’s what it’s all about).
10: The number of months in jail that former World Cup-winning captain of the Italy football team Fabio Cannavaro has been sentenced to spend in jail.
9.9 stone: The combined amount of weight lost by the five leaders in RTE’s Operation Transformation. One of the leaders along lost 2 stone 9.5 lbs.
3: The number of hours that a single mother from Donegal spent in Mountjoy prison after being jailed for not paying her TV licence, before being given a bus ticket home.
€2: The cost of crisp sandwiches at the special Tayto pop-up shop which will be opening in Dublin city centre this week.
€1.36: The total price that 130 houses in northern England have been offered for sale at. The houses are in a village which was left decimated by the closure of the coal mines.
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Read somewhere that they sent her to Jail in a taxi accompanied by a Guard & the combined cost was €700. Then after the three hours, they gave her €25 for bus fare home. They also lost the remaining €240 of the fine she had eft to pay because of her being jailed.
That’s a great economic balance there. Could they not just take her TV off her & sell it to cover the licence?
Bbc started the tv licence because they do not show ads, RTE show ads so it should be free. No one should be locked up for such a victimless crime.
Although I agree 100% that no one should ever be locked up over a TV licence, you can’t compare RTE to BBC. Their licence is £145 (€200) compared to ours which is €160. Their population is also 65million compared to ours at 4.5million. A massive difference of revenue which explains why RTE need to show ads. The biggest problem I have is the ridiculous salaries paid to RTE employees which are unjustifiable. Our licence could be halved or say €100 if those salaries were cut.
Answer…mass non-compliance, till they cop on.
Mulherin is lucky, most people that steal at work are fired or asked to resign. Payback and drive on a as normal is a good result
‘Repayed’……. should that not be ‘repaid’……..
They need to introduce the same system in Ireland as the UK. You cant by a tv without a valid tv licence. It won’t cull the problem for people buying second hand tv’s but it’s a start.
Ridiculous waste of resources however. She should have just been made to pay it back in installments.
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