€1.9 million: The average yearly value of unclaimed bus receipts, according to Dublin Bus.
88: The number of formal complaints received by RTÉ over last week’s Late Late Show ‘Lamb Carousel’ segment.
218: The number of Irish people arrested and deported from Australia since 2010.
61: The age actor Alan Stanford found out that he was adopted.
€50 million: The projected cost of the redevelopment of Cork’s Captiol Cinema. The demolition of the building began this week.
€32,000: The amount of money donated by comedian and actor Brendan O’Carroll to the family of a pregnant crash victim.
1,244: The number of people saved by the RNLI last year.
€4 million: The cost of a planned refurbishment to the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
1916: A call went out to the public on Monday for help in identifying a man who had witnessed the events of the 1916 Rising. He was identified on Wednesday.
€66 million: The amount of money won by an Irish person in last night’s Euromillions draw.
€60,000: The amount of money a hospital had to pay to a cleaner pricked by a hypodermic needle.
80,000: The number of asylum seekers Sweden plans to expel.
35: The number of people arrested this week in an undercover Garda anti-drug operation.
583: The number of jobs likely to be lost as a liquidator is appointed to Xtra-vision.
14: The number of months the Banking Inquiry ran for. It published its final report this week.
36: The number of seats Labour say they can win in the general election. We’ve been covering their conference today.
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