EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
127: The length of the trial of ex-Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick before he was acquitted of all charges this week.
€1 billion: The amount of money’s worth of equipment the US army lost track of in Iraq.
5,000: The number of soldiers British Prime Minister Theresa May ordered to the streets of Britain following a terrorist attack in Manchester which claimed the lives of 22 people.
5: The number of points separating The Labour Party and the Conservative Party, according to the latest UK poll.
2,708: The number of homeless children staying in emergency accommodation last month, a new record high.
€10 million: The amount of money that the Order of Jesus and Mary will sell five acres of land on a Dublin school’s grounds for.
€50,000: The average amount of money a first time buyer needs for a deposit, according to the latest Economic Letter published by the Central Bank.
1000: The potential capacity of a new hotel that Tayto Park has applied for planning permission for.
28: The number of families to be housed in a former Bargaintown warehouse in Coolock later this year.
23 million: The number of additional people who would be left without health insurance in the US under the Trump administration’s new healthcare plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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