2.14

Million euro borrowed every hour in 2010, totalling €19.5bn – and that was just to cover day-to-day spending

80,000

Pounds sterling earned every year by musician Gerry Rafferty in royalties from his saxophone
classic 'Baker Street'

599,768

Tonnes of waste predicted by ESRI as minimum amount that could be incinerated in 2020,
after recycling targets – plenty for the Poolbeg incinerator

5

Years' jail faced by ex Anglo Irish Bank boss David Drumm if it were proved he misled his US bankruptcy hearings

2,000

Followers of Facebook page praising Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who assassinated liberal Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer

30

Minutes, the time recipes in Jamie Oliver's 30 Minute Meals are supposed to need, but which irate readers complain take a lot, lot longer

200

Occurrences of N-word (nigger) in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to be replaced in latest edition by the word "slave"

10

Percentage of smokers who quit by going cold turkey that will succeed

21

Minutes' delay before Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray raised the alarm