EVERY SATURDAY TheJournal.ie brings you a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.

300: The number of years since Dublin’s Great South Wall was first proposed.

30: The number minutes journalists were given to look through a list of Siteserv shareholders.

349,551: The number of people on the Live Register. The first time it’s been below 350,000 in six years.

7%: The current rate of Universal Social Charge Enda Kenny says the government will cut.

€1.4 million: What Protein World says it has earned on the back of its controversial ‘Are You Beach Body Ready?’ campaign.

12: The weight, in grammes, of a robot that can pull an object 2000 times its own weight.

417,000: The number of listeners to the country’s most popular radio programme, Morning Ireland.

105: The number of people sleeping rough on a night in Dublin, a decrease on recent figures.

3: The length, in feet, of a rat found swimming in a Tipperary river.

822: The number of garda referrals to a Laois/Offaly branch of the Child and Family Agency that weren’t acknowledged.

€500,000+: The amount of pay Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan has handed back during his tenure.

27: The number of categories in this year’s IFTAs. The nominations were announced this week.

9: The average age when children should learn to code according to a new survey.

€5 million: What Bus Éireann estimates this weekend’s strike will cost the company.

6: The number of members of a family that were forced to sleep in a car in Cork.

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