1,800

Articles about the budget in 800 overseas publications in 41 countries in the 24 hours following Brian Lenihan's Dáil speech

23

Dáil sittings out of 59 missed by former FF TD for Donegal North East Jim McDaid, making him politics' worst attender before he resigned with a €250,000 pension pot

5,000,000

Projected sales of this year's top electronic toy, the Xbox 360's new motion-sensing controller, Kinect

3

Calls-a-month limit on banks to homeowners
in mortgage arrears
under new Central Bank code

€1.25bn

Price, revealed by
WikiLeaks, that Burmese junta leader Than Shwe considered paying for Manchester United

83

Complaints received
by ITV in 1961 when
Coronation Street's Ken Barlow uttered the expletive "bloody"

€161,000

Allied Irish Bank trader John Foy's deferred bonus payment which he will now get thanks to a High Court victory forcing the bust bank to pay out €40m to 90 of his colleagues

57

Billionaires committed to giving half their wealth to charity under The Giving Pledge initiative

1,000

Weekly warnings from Eircom to customers illegally downloading web content