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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
27: The number of years Steve Whitmire spent playing Kermit the Frog on the Muppets before it was announced he was being fired this week.
10,000: the number of Irish Water customers who have been issued a boil water notice after an E. coli detection.
7.5: The number of acres of a school’s playing pitches that were sold by the Christian Brothers to pay for redress.
€200,000: The amount of money Ireland is donating to support Palestinians in the West Bank.
€1.115 billion: The amount of money a French court ruled that Google does NOT have to pay in taxes in France as the internet giant’s Irish subsidiary is not taxable there.
€197,699: The average price being paid for a home in Ireland, according to the CSO’s latest residential property index.
€120 million: The estimated rollout cost of a recycling deposit scheme for plastic, glass bottles and cans.
€40 million: The cost of the project to see a steelworks dump on a Cork island turned into a park.
€28.9 million: The amount of money won by an Irish syndicate on last week’s Euromillions jackpot, who have made contact with the National Lottery.
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Why do you use the term Irish Water COSTOMERS, I am not a customer I never signed up, applied for, or paid to. Get the description right.
@onebox: wouldn’t hostage or victim be the better term?
Lads, the war is over.
Christ, move on.
He don’t mention on those stats how much we will pay for all this pay by weight bins collection . Another charge on top of a charge we cannot afford to pay for
I wonder will France try and sue us for that €1.115 billion now…
And that €120 million sounds like a good investment in the future.
@Patrick Kearns:
They can Go Whistle.
Donating to Hamas is no different to donating to ISIS. Disgusting
@Stephen Kearon: Hamas fight Isis daily whats your point ? diddnt ff suspend you for stupid comments
@Stephen Kearon:
Bit of an ignoramus. ISIS hates Hamas.
have your say