EVERY SATURDAY ON TheJournal.ie we bring you a selection of the statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
1,400: The number of light-years between Earth and a newly discovered planet being described as our ‘bigger cousin’.
500: The number of nurses the HSE is seeking to tempt to Ireland from abroad with the lure of secure contracts.
13: The number of branches of Best Menswear. The company has gone into examinership.
300: There’ll be fewer than 300 women in the newest version of the Fifa video game compared to 16,000 men.
$7 billion: The increase in wealth over 24 hours for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos after shares in the website jumped.
10,000: The number of tourists who arrived in Dublin on four cruise ships on one day this week.
51.8: The average age of sexually active women according to new research.
€1.2 billion: The price Japanese media company Nikkei paid for the Financial Times.
330: The number of new jobs Pramerica Systems is adding to its Donegal base, making it one of Ireland’s biggest FDI employers.
€1,500: The production cost of Hozier’s Take Me To Church video that’s been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award.
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