A glance at the week that was
Crouch forgiven
Abbey Clancy, the model, TV presenter and (at time of going to press) fiancee of one Peter Crouch, is reported to be willing to forgive the Tottenham striker for sleeping with an Algerian prostitute.
Crouch, who is reported to earn £70,000 a week, was voted top of a poll of funniest sporting one-liners earlier this year for his response to a reporter who asked what he would be if he wasn’t a footballer.
“A virgin,” quipped Crouch.
Murphy on stroke
Ireland’s Gráinne Murphy, the 17-year-old swimming sensation from Wexford, finished fourth in the 800m freestyle at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest on Thursday. Murphy missed out on the bronze by just five hundredths of a second. “I wasn’t even expecting to make the final,” said Murphy, who yesterday beat her own Irish national record by 18 seconds with a time of 8:25.04 in the qualifying heat for today’s 1,500m freestyle. Next up for Gráinne? Tomorrow’s 400m freestyle.
We now know
There are an estimated 61 ghost estatesand 300,000 empty homes in the State.
A strain of bacteria that is resistant to almost all antibioticsidentified in Pakistan and India has spread to the UK and US.
Between 1989 and 2006, breast cancer mortalityin Ireland decreased by almost 27 per cent.
The numbers
300 million
The number of tonnes of CO2 emitted each year due to internet use
£ 250
The value of Oscar Wilde’s wordly goods upon his death, according to documents published on ancestry.co.uk this week.
18,450
The number of people worldwide who died from H1N1 infections, better known as swine flu.
Why don't they all just tell the truth?
Louis Walsh tells it like it is on Tonight with Vincent Browne
