EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
1,336: The number of passengers carried on the 8am Dart from Greystones to Malahide, making it the busiest train in Ireland.
€31,800: The starting salary for teachers in the TUI and INTO unions as of yesterday, under a new agreement.
7: The latest iPhone was released this week to better-than-expected sales.
15: The minimum number of strike days left to come for Dublin Bus workers as the industrial dispute shows no sign of letting up.
€38 million: The cost of a huge new Kerrygold butter factory which opened this week in Cork.
3%: The rise in VHI health insurance announced this week.
250: The number of kilometres the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in England will be from Rosslare when it is built. It got the green light this week.
€1,364: The average cost of renting now in Dublin, as prices surpass those in 2007 at the height of the economic boom.
€3 billion: The amount of money government ministers’ budget requests have come to – far above the €1 billion it has for expenditure.
€58 billion: The cost of a deal by German chemical giant Bayer to buy controversial US seeds and pesticides firm Monsanto – which has been a labelled a ”marriage made in hell” by some concerned parties.
50,000: The number of people who will benefit after a boil notice for water was lifted in Co Mayo.
60,000: The number of students that received their Junior Cert results this week.
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