EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
€9,229: The amount of money an Irish family was ordered to pay an au pair who previously worked for them.
55: The number of stolen designer sunglasses found in the possession of Joseph Magee, a former paramilitary. He avoided jail for their possession this week.
94: The number of TDs who voted against Enda Kenny becoming Taoiseach when the new Dáil met for its first session on Thursday.
76,081: The number of CAO applications received last month, in increase of 1,657 from last year.
€50,000: The amount of money a former clinical nurse has been accused of stealing from an elderly patient over a two-year period.
76: The age of Irish Olympian ‘Gentleman Jim’ McNamara, who died this week.
$40 million: The lawsuit facing Donald Trump over the now defunct Trump University.
29 March: The date that new measures around getting a passport in order to combat fraud and identity theft will be introduced in Ireland.
1997: The year Coy Wesbrook shot five people dead. He was executed in Texas this week.
€30,000: The amount of money in cash gardaí seized in dawn raids targeting the Kinahan crime cartel.
1916: This Easter Rising inspired beer caused quite a stir during the week.
7: The number of different types of boobs in the world, apparently.
42: Of the world’s most talented female athletes.
2: The newly elected Healy-Rae brothers took the opportunity of the first sitting of the Dáil to have a concert outside of Leinster House.
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