A glance at the week that was
The numbers
€1bnThe increase in value of Irish food and drink exports in 2011, which reached an all-time high of €8.85 billion, according to Bord Bia.
9The number of nominations The Guard(starring Brendan Gleeson) has received for the 2012 Irish Film and Television Awards.
€21,500The average farm income in 2011, a 27 per cent increase, according to the Irish Farmers' Association.
$93,701.57The amount the US actor Lindsay Lohan owes in federal income taxes, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
21The number of times more likely people are to suffer a heart attack within one day of bereavement, according to a study in the journal Circulation.
593,468The number of hours of unpaid overtime for which Nike has agreed to pay Indonesian workers $1 million in compensation.
We now know
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has been arrested for shoplifting cheese and wine at a supermarket.
Former footballer Eric Cantona (left) wants to run in this year’s presidential election in France.
Astronomers have determined that the exact colour of the Milky Way is pure white.
'Unfinished sympathy? I shall compose a letter'
A letter in which Ludwig van Beethoven complained about his poor eyesight and finances has surfaced in Germany as part of a bequest. In the six-page letter, Beethoven asks his fellow composer Franz Stockhausen to help find advance buyers for his Missa SolemnisMass.
“My low salary and my illness demand efforts to make a better fortune,” he wrote in 1827, four years before his death. The letter, valued at more than €100,000, will go on display at the Brahms Institute, in Lübeck, next week.
