A glance at the week that was
The numbers
€1,003The price a locket commemorating a British soldier killed during the 1916 Rising fetched at auction.
50 billionThe likely number of undiscovered planets in the entire galaxy, according to Nasa's Kepler team.
3.7The percentage of people in Ireland living in apartments – well below the EU average of 42 per cent
27The percentage the FAI will cut their ticket prices by, following poor sales.
191The number of Irish prisoners who registered to vote in the general election.
18,900The number of whiskey bottles, worth about €270,000, stolen from Carlingford, Co Louth.
We now know
Brian O’Driscoll and Amy Huberman have been invited to the British royal wedding in April.
Rufus Wainwright has fathered a baby girl with Leonard Cohens daughter, Lorca. They will both raise her along with Wainright’s partner, “deputy dad” Jorn Weisbrodt.
The Australian town Speedhas been renamed "Speedkills" to promote road safety.
U2 will headline Glastonbury festival after cancelling last year.
Always the first to know
A new app, Facebook Breakup Notifier, lets users know when the statuses of certain friends relationships change. But after amassing over 3.6 million users since launching on Monday, Facebook shut down the app. The reason? Facebook may have been alarmed by the unsettling premise for the app: “You like someone. They’re in a relationship. Be the first to know when they’re out of it.”
Familiy guy
A 66-year-old Indian man who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren says he wouldnt mind having more.
Ziona Chana, who once married 10 women in one year, lives with what is believed to be the world’s biggest family in a 100-room building. “Even today, I am ready to expand my family and willing to go to any extent to marry,” Chana said. “I have so many people to care [for] and look after, and I consider myself a lucky man.”
And next week you'll need to know all about . . . Paris Fashion Week
THE FASHION PACK moves to Paris on Tuesday for the start of a hectic 10-day round of shows, parties and events for the finale of the winter 2011 collections. Frontline celebs will include regulars such as actors Charlotte Gainsbourg and Clements Poesie, Alexa Chung and Anna Wintour, with Paul McCartney usually checking out daughter Stella's show. Rumours abound that this will be Stefano Pilati's last collection for YSL.
The latest modelling sensations, androgynous Serbian-born Andrej Pejic and transsexual Italian Lea T, will be talking points.
The jeunesse dorée and hip fashion crowd will head to hot spots such as the Meurice, Montana, Club Sandwich or the select Matisse. The "in" restaurant still remains Davé on the Rue de Richelieu.
Nearly 100 catwalk shows will kick off with Dries Van Noten on Wednesday and end the following Wednesday with Louis Vuitton. Crowds will flock to a pop-up shop on the Rue St Honore, a first-time collaboration between Chanel and the city's coolest shop Colette.
Deirdre McQuillan
