EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers you a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
407 – The number of passes completed by the Italian soccer team in their 2-1 win over Germany in Thursday night’s Euro 2012 semi-final. That’s compared to the Germans’ 474. Spain, in their 120-minute 0-0 with Portugal, completed a whopping 658 – but their pass completion rate, at 74 per cent, was far lower than the Spaniards would like.
€119.9 million – How much it cost to run the Houses of the Oireachtas last year, as revealed in its annual report published yesterday. That’s higher than the €113 million it expected to cost, but that’s largely due to the general election, for which cash had already been allocated this year.
€120 billion – The size of the economic stimulus package agreed by European Union countries at the two-day summit in Brussels.
7.123 per cent – The interest rate Ireland would have paid to borrow money for nine years, as of Thursday evening…
6.388 per cent – …and how much it would have paid yesterday afternoon, after news had broken of a deal which could retrospectively split the link between banking debt and the sovereign.
253,813 – The number of crimes recorded in the twelve months up to March 2012. That’s down by 7.2 per cent on the previous year. That includes…
€28 million – The estimated street value of the 350 kilograms of cocaine recovered by Gardaí in Ireland’s biggest-ever inland drugs seizure this week. The actual value could be significantly higher than that depending on whether the drugs are ‘cut’ with another substance to increase their weight.
1,355 – The number of dwellings for which planning permission was approved in the first three months of 2012. That’s down by just under 95 per cent from its peak in the second quarter of 2007.
Five days – The length of time for which Vassilis Rapanos served as the finance minister of Greece. Rapanos resigned on Monday – amid ill-health – reportedly because of the scale of the job he would have faced. His prime minister Antonis Samaras has also been in hospital having surgery on a detached retina, missing the EU summit.
£1 – The amount the Stone Roses said it would pay photographers for photographs taken of them while on tour – and then be free to use those photos for merchandising without credit to the photographer. Unsurprisingly, the photographers are boycotting the tour.
2,840 – The number of litres of Coca-Cola you would need to drink to match the alcohol content of a pint of lager. A French study has found that there’s trace amounts of alcohol in Coke and other soft drinks.
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