Your browser is out of date. Some of the content on this site will not work properly as a result.
Upgrade your browser for a faster, better, and safer web experience.

The Irish Water crisis in numbers

Click below to get the code. Please include an attribution to Delayed Gratification and a link with this graphic.

On 10th December 2014, 100,000 people in Ireland marched in protest of newly introduced water charges. But what preceded the demonstrations and how did they lead to a week of candlelit vigils in Buncrana for hunger-striking protesters? Here’s the story of how the Irish water crisis came to a boil, in numbers.

This infographic was taken from issue #18 of Delayed Gratification. To see it in all its printed glory, buy the issue in our shop.

A slower, more reflective type of journalism”
Creative Review

Jam-packed with information... a counterpoint to the speedy news feeds we've grown accustomed to”
Creative Review

A leisurely (and contrary) look backwards over the previous three months”
The Telegraph

Quality, intelligence and inspiration: the trilogy that drives the makers of Delayed Gratification”
El Mundo

Refreshing... parries the rush of 24-hour news with 'slow journalism'”
The Telegraph

A very cool magazine... It's like if Greenland Sharks made a newspaper”
Qi podcast

The UK's second-best magazine” Ian Hislop
Editor, Private Eye
Private Eye Magazine

Perhaps we could all get used to this Delayed idea...”
BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme