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Ireland in 10 years time..

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  • 16-01-2010 2:48am
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    flag123
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭


    What do you think the difference with Ireland would be in the next ten years compared to now?


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    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Me 10 years grumpier and more sexy.
    O' Ireland your taking about!
    Feck all change on a political and ethics front - sadly!


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    amacachi
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    Trains around the capital should be better. Maybe some decent broadband. We might even get mobile phones with slightly increased screen resolution. :)


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    OctavarIan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    We'll be even more cynical and pedantic


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    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    flag123 wrote: »
    What do you think the difference with Ireland would be in the next ten years compared to now?

    At your current rate, you'll have at least 500 posts on boards.ie.


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    Coriolanus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    I'd agree with Biggins. Nothing fundamental will have changed. Kids will be dressing like they did in the 90s I guess, instead of the 80s?


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    plein de force
    Registered Users Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    hopefully better infrastructure, better roads, rail networks, higher broadband penetration if we're out of this recession for me it'll more than likely be a place i come to visit every now and then to see parents and relatives and where i grew up as it will no longer be my home, strange thought atm


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    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Biggins wrote: »
    Me 10 years grumpier

    Grand!

    Well, Hopefully, I'll be 10 years happier.

    Here's to a bit of optimisim then?


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    Run_to_da_hills
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    All our brand new 22000 class DMU train sets will be converted to push pulls. :D


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    Larianne
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    Nevore wrote: »
    I'd agree with Biggins. Nothing fundamental will have changed. Kids will be dressing like they did in the 90s I guess, instead of the 80s?

    X-workx and Eclipse back? Oh no. :(


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    Senna
    Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    By then the unemployment figures MIGHT be under 250k.


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    ascanbe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    OctavarIan wrote: »
    We'll be even more cynical and pedantic

    Oh, that's very cynical of you.
    By the way, you forgot to use a full stop.


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    citizen_p
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    more transport and better/ cheaper broadband.

    hell south korea (i think its korea) has put it into law that its a fundamental right that everyone has access to broadband and they have fiber optic at like 80% coverage


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    Gingy
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Gingy


    No need for trains around the capital, sure we'll all have hover crafts.

    Speaking of which, why do people always refer to us having hover crafts in the future?     I like plain old boring cars!


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    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    3mb broadband mandatory in all households.....free.


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    brightkane
    Registered Users Posts: 2,716 ✭✭✭brightkane


    I will be 10 years older, wiser and not looking at sh1te threads like this


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    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Very bright of you kane.


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    brightkane
    Registered Users Posts: 2,716 ✭✭✭brightkane


    very sharp of you, em, sh1tter


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    Sharpshooter
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    Oh!
    A war of words.

    We shall settle this in 10 years time. :pac:


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    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    We're all going to be dead in 2012 sure.


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    OutlawPete
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    We'll all be dead I'd say, hope so .. I feel crap.


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    JONJO THE MISER
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    Lidl Aldi and Dunnes will have a supermarket war with Tesco, forcing Tesco to retreat from the Republic having sustained mass casualties mainly there own brand products. Supervalu will be netural in this great war. Maurice Pratt will try and call for peace but will do so in vain and by 2017 Tesco will be no more in the Republic.


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    hal9000
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭hal9000


    Based on current economic and technological trends, I predict the following:

    http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt353/logiire/ireland2020.jpg


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    orourkeda
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    I predict a riot, I predict a riot


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    IronMan
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    I hope our main achievement in the next 10 years is something more than fast broadband, which seems to be the main wish so far.

    I hope to see Ireland becoming a world leader in the design of renewable energy solutions, the rain falls here, the wind blows here, the waves crash against the coast here.

    I predict some racial tensions arising because of poor government planning during the "Celtic Tiger" period. West Dublin to be the source of these issues.
    It has happened in every other European country, so why can we expect any difference here? The sooner we have a proper debate, that excludes the professional limp wristed liberal set, and the "dey tuck our jabs" set, the better.

    No Aer Lingus.

    The untimely death of an Irish rock star. Cause of death, massive self importance.


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    Luno
    Registered Users Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭Luno


    I'll be president, a new type of flu will be around and Ireland will be covered in 3 feet of snow!


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    MagicMarker
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    The M50 will almost be finished. Almost.


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    m@cc@
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    There'll be Father Ted repeats on.


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    Micamaca
    Registered Users Posts: 346 ✭✭Micamaca


    There will be plans up discussing the possible (but not probable) building of Metro North. That oul tulip :mad:


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    D-A-V-E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭D-A-V-E


    realistically there will be alot more people from africa, india, pakistan etc and the muslims will probably be the second largest religion..oh and those orange trains will still be around, celebrating their 50th or so year in service!


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    Biggins
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    Fianna Fail will still disputing arguing with the banks and the scientology cult about who can steal the most money from the public.
    (Tom Cruise will be declared mentally insane by then - we can only hope!)

    Harney will be running for president, hoping some Irish dumb folk have short memories.
    (She'll be right!)

    Irish might be removed from the basic teaching syllabus.

    The Muslims will have taken over - and between alcohol being too expensive and their adverts too politically incorrect for the religious fanatic nuts - all alcohol related PR stunts will be banned.

    We will still be trying to get Ahern to pay his taxes! He will still be suffering from convenient memory loss.

    Gery Ryan's bank account and waistline will have gotten even bigger.

    RTE will be FINALLY declared a lost cause along with Air Lingus.

    The Chinese will have targeted Ireland with their missiles for two minutes, looked at the state of our place, said (in Chinese) "Aaa soo, they are already fooked" and re-direct their missiles back to the great Satan, America.


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