EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
439,000: The weekly listeners to RTÉ Radio 1′s Morning Ireland, making it Ireland’s most listened radio show.
53: The metabolic age given to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar following a series of tests on RTÉ’s Operation Transformation. Varadkar turned 40 last month.
5%: The expected average rise in salaries this year as employers forecast Irish jobs boost from Brexit.
€58,326: The amount of money paid to Boris Johnson to speak at a conference in Dublin last month.
3.2 metres: The height of the plinth that a statue of Margaret Thatcher was put on to deter vandals.
30: The number of years it has been since the Academy Awards has not had a host. Organisers have claimed the disarray over the lack of a host this year could prove to be positive for the awards show.
€500 million: The tax settlement agreed by Apple with French authorities, settling 10 years of back taxes.
40: The percentage of eight to 10-year-olds who are speaking to strangers online, with 15% doing so every day.
1.45 million: The number of people who tuned into to see Ireland’s opening Six Nations game against England.
800: The number of cases in Ireland where people sought help with gambling addiction since 2015.
€113,135.40: The amount of money the State has spent on private security in the past three years for an army barracks that has been unused for over six years.
€191 million: The figure Health Minister Simon Harris was told the construction budget for the National Children’s Hospital was likely to overrun by.
66: The percentage of Irish people who said in a recent poll they have a less favourable view of the UK as a result of Brexit.
25: The percentage by which the number of homes built in 2018 rose compared to 2017.
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