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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.
367: The number of people rescued by the LÉ Niamh after the latests migrant boat tragedy in the Mediterranean.
$160 million: Uber’s losses in the first six month of last year, almost $100 million more than the previous year.
515: The number of days that passed between MH370 going missing and the first confirmed piece of debris being found.
$80 million: What Robert Downey Jr., the world’s highest paid actor, made over the course of a year.
€785: The average costs of sending a first-year pupil back-to-school this year. The cost among each age group is growing.
5: The number of UK police forces now investigating sex abuse allegations against former Prime Minister Ted Heath.
€150: What children aged between one and nine are valued at as sex slaves according a verified document by the Islamic State group.
730,000,000: That’s seven hundred and thirty million litres of beer produced in Ireland last year.
€320: What a Permanent TSB customer says he was being overcharged by each month on his mortgage.
7km: The length of electricity cable stolen by a criminal gang from overhead lines on the Dublin-Kildare border.
11 million: The number of active users of the Just-Eat delivery service.
30–40: The estimated height in feet of the inflatable minion that caused chaos and worldwide headlines in Dublin.
€34,603.45: What a Dublin detergent company was told to pay after detergent was spilled into the River Tolka killing more than 5,000 fish.
71: Where Enda Kenny sits on a list of the most attractive world leaders compiled by website Hottest Heads of State.
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200€ the average cost of sending a first year child to school? Pathetic journalism here bud. Try 400 to 600€ minimum. I’m not going to do your job and give you the breakdown on that…….try do your job properly ya lazy sod!
Id add another couple of hundred euro to that
The article it links to says it’s €785
2 kids 1 primary 1 secondary in around €1000 so far for back to school.
Tom, you tool, it’s an average???? If you spend 600€ you are a bigger tool. Oh sand I have 3 children, so I know the costs. Tool
Hi Tom,
My mistake, as is mentioned by Stephen Crowley above, the average cost is €785 according to our earlier article. I took down the wrong figure, it is corrected now. Apologies.
Rónán
€200 I wish ! uniform and tracksuit alone costs that !!!!! …school fees, ‘voluntary contribution’, books, copies, stationary, journal etc etc
I don’t know what all of you are spending the money on. I have two children in School and when they were both in the same school we never had to spend anything near that much money. Uniforms lasted nearly 6 years and the only real annual cost was shoes and runners which if you buy on sale aren’t too much. Even with one child starting secondary school and the entire new range of uniform items, we are barely at the €750 mark and the uniforms we bought this year will most likely be good for at least 3 years. Voluntary contributions are just that, voluntary and in my experience more people don’t seem to pay them than do.
Maybe I’m getting something wrong, but none of those numbers stack up for me. Unless they only talked to families with 5 or more children, but naturally things are going to cost you more when you have big families.
Uniform lasting 3 years??? What your kids don’t grow???
3 kids heading to school this year, not even 100% finished and I’ve spent close to €500. Bonkers.
Apparently in this country we have free education…..
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