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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.
€1 million: The value of the heroin seized by revenue officers at Dublin Airport on Tuesday.
6 years: The jail term handed to former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm for his role in a multi-billion euro bank fraud scheme in 2008.
78: The percentage of corporate workers who are concerned about mental health.
6,000: The number of illegally dumped rubbish bags collected in Dublin’s inner city last year.
62: The age that the world’s oldest Sumatran orangutan died at.
109: The number of people affected by sex trafficking that Ruhama supported last year.
99.6: The percentage of TV viewers in Iceland that tuned in for their national side’s 2018 World Cup opener against Argentina.
22,000: The number of passport applications that have taken up to eight weeks to process so far this year, which the passport office apologised for this week.
22 years: The jail term handed to James Quinn for the murder of Gary Hutch.
€210,000: The fine handed to a Kilkenny Credit Union for failing to balance its main transactional bank account, which exposed members’ savings to a risk of loss.
4: The number of awards won by Journal Media at the Justice Media Awards, which recognise and reward excellence in legal journalism.
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29 going on 49. You are only young once pal.
@Jay:
That’s the only type who would keep a money diary!!
Have you noticed how many accountants and money managers come up?
Maybe if the journal offered a free bet to write one of these diaries we’d all finally get the account of the young life of the hard drinking tearaway whose rent this week is entirely dependent on the 3.30 at Kempton that we all secretly hope to read whenever we open one of these articles.
@George Bowling:
Haha, it would have to be a lot more than one free bet to get someone like that to keep an accurate money diary
Youth is wasted on the young.
@Laney Sinc: he is a very rich one and saving a pretty penny
Well done. I think you’re doing great.
Woke up, got out of bed, dragged the comb across my head. Made my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat.
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke and somebody spoke and I went into a dream.
I can only assume the engineer is either Elec, Mech or similar. His remuneration shows the exploitation large companies get away with. You can be guaranteed they are charging the client double if not more for his role. Of course I’m guessing but this would be typical of construction companies. After all the years studying being an engineer is no longer seen as it was once before.
@Thomas Meaney: He could grow a pair and go work for himself and double his salary immediately minimum.
no kids, carreer oriented and no life
@Dominic Leleu: People don’t seem to realise you pay for selfish choices at the end in old age when loneliness and isolation kick in.
have your say