A glance at the week that was
The numbers
16The number of babies per million named Palin in the US last year, according to BabyCenter.com.
€6.3bnThe cost of the natural disasters that hit Australia.
24,880The record number of patients on trolleys in AE wards so far in 2011, according to the Irish Nurses' and Midwives' Organisation.
€35,000The price a set of deer antlers fetched at auction.
760The number of thunderstorms Earth sees every hour, scientists have calculated.
70The percentage of nursing-home patients on the wrong medication, according to the Centre of Ageing Research and Development in Ireland.
We now know
Ireland will not be attending the 2015 cricket World Cup after the number of participating teams was cut.
Working 11 or more hours per day causes a 67 per cent higher risk of suffering a heart attack, according to research in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
A research fellowship is to be set up at Trinity College in commemoration of Hollywood star Grace Kelly.
Seats on top
A mayor in Germany has won acclaim for introducing a park bench for teenagers. Following complaints in the city of Eppelheim that teens always sat on the top of benches and kept muddying the seats below, mayor Dieter Mörlein proposed putting the seat on top. He has named them “no-interest” benches as teens have “no interest in following etiquette. They all sit on the new benches like sparrows on a branch.”
Not a Lotto luck
A Tesco shopper in Navan missed out on a €500,000 lottery jackpot after returning the winning ticket they were given by mistake. It is understood the person had requested a €4 Quick Pick for the EuroMillions Plus draw on April 1st but when handed a €9 ticket in error, they returned it to the cashier, who locked it in the till. Tesco Ireland has said that if the company proves to be the ultimate winner of the prize, it will give the money away.
