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€23bn, 23% and 3 VAT rates: The brutal maths blocking cheaper fuel (opens the original)
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In Politics by Numbers, broadcaster, author and spreadsheet stan Gavan Reilly takes a data deep dive into a political point of the week. THE VERDICT OF those in the Well Hotel in Moate was fairly clear. People had driven from the four corners of the country – from Kerry to Connemara to the tip of Malin – and couldn’t even get into the main function room, instead standing in front of a big screen in the car park. When motor fuels are as dear as they are, trekking that far is a gesture – just as i
Is zero the most powerful number in politics? (opens the original)
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In Politics by Numbers, broadcaster, author and spreadsheet stan Gavan Reilly takes a data deep dive into a political point of the week. ECONOMICS IS SUPPOSED to work on a fundamental premise: that in any given scenario, people will act rationally to further their own interests. But within the branch of behavioural economics, there is a number that tends to turn this assumption on its head. It’s zero: when things are free, the usual expectations of how people react tend to go out the window. A p
A million people can now vote in Seanad elections, but they're not signing up (opens the original)
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In Politics by Numbers, broadcaster, author and spreadsheet stan Gavan Reilly takes a data deep dive into a political point of the week. YOU MIGHT NOT know the name of Tomás Heneghan. If you went to any college in the country other than the five oldest universities, you ought to: he’s the reason you’re getting another vote in the next election. Heneghan, a graduate of the University of Limerick, was the man behind a successful legal challenge to the format of Seanad elections – and specifically
Gavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add up (opens the original)
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In Politics by Numbers, broadcaster, author and spreadsheet stan Gavan Reilly takes a data deep dive into a political point of the week. EARLIER THIS WEEK I went semi-viral on Instagram for silently making the above face on the telly. On Monday with Gavan Reilly we’d been discussing the proposed changes to the law on attaining citizenship – whether they were fair to immigrants already here who had hoped to apply sooner; whether there was any need to replicate the average EU procedure given our d
Gavan Reilly: 7.8 million people and 260 TDs by 2049? How Ireland's population surge affects the Dáil (opens the original)
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In Politics by Numbers, broadcaster, author and spreadsheet stan Gavan Reilly takes a data deep dive into a political point of the week. “WELCOME BACK TO day six of our coverage of Election 2049. Let’s go straight to the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, and the count in Dublin South West, where the marathon count to fill the ninth and tenth seats is nearing completion…” Does that sound a bit mad to you? An election count going into a sixth day, with exhausted staff filing through papers tr
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