EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
$21,800,000,000: The amount that Facebook has paid for messaging service WhatsApp. The deal was finalised this week, almost eight months after it was first announced.
86,894: The total number of new cars bought in Ireland so far this year – an increase of almost a third compared to this time last year.
65,000: The number of people who signed a petition calling for the dog of Spain’s first Ebola patient not to be put down. Despite the protests, Excalibur was put down on Wednesday.
1,442: The number of ‘right to be forgotten’ requests people in Ireland have made to Google in the last five months.
71: The number of near misses between Luas trams and pedestrians so far this year.
20%: The average deposit that most people looking to buy a home will now need under radical new rules for mortgage lending from the Central Bank.
9: The number of years that Jeanie Johnston, the famine ship, has been moored at Dublin’s docklands. It was taken away this week for an overhaul.
7: The number of years that Breifne O’Brien, described as Ireland’s answer to Bernie Madoff, was sentenced to in court on Wednesday.
5: The percentage that Ireland’s unemployment rate will fall to by the end of this decade, according to the ESRI.
€2.95: The cost of some pints of beer at the Blackrock branch of discount chain Wetherspoon’s.
2.49: The length in minutes and seconds of the cover of God Only Knows released by the BBC this week.
3 - The number of days until Budget 2015 is announced.
2: The number of life sentences handed down to Sanjeev Chada for the murder of his two sons, Eoghan and Ruairí.
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