Ireland in 10 years time..

flag123

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

Biggins

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

amacachi

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

OctavarIan

We'll be even more cynical and pedantic

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.

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?

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

Whosbetter?

Biggins wrote: »

Me 10 years grumpier

Grand!

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

Here's to a bit of optimisim then?

Run_to_da_hills

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

Larianne

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.

Senna

By then the unemployment figures MIGHT be under 250k.

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.

citizen_p

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

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!

demanufactured

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

brightkane

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

Sharpshooter

Very bright of you kane.

brightkane

very sharp of you, em, sh1tter

Sharpshooter

Oh!
A war of words.

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

jd007

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

OutlawPete

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

JONJO THE MISER

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.

hal9000

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

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

orourkeda

I predict a riot, I predict a riot

IronMan

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.

Luno

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

MagicMarker

The M50 will almost be finished. Almost.

m@cc@

There'll be Father Ted repeats on.

Micamaca

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

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!

Biggins

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.

wes

Well, I am hoping for flying cars .

Fracture

people will have grown and extra leg and 2 extra arms.

InkSlinger67

Can't really see a huge difference to today's Ireland, hopefully the church will have lost a couple of hundred thousand members, maybe a minor "shake up" in the dail, public services will still be crap and finally, I'm secretly hoping for Ireland's first superhero* to emerge to foil corruption and general scum

*The Citizen does not have super powers

Who_owns_this?

One word for you - superpotatoes.

(By 2020 this will officially have become a word.)

Coriolanus

IronMan wrote: »

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.

It's in the charter than any mention of that line has to be accompanied by a youtube video. :mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzivCJ9pzU

Anyway, yeah, rioting is a good prediction. Blanch and Crumlin to become a picture of a banlieu a few years ago or however the French spell it.

opinion guy

Mary Harney will be uturning yet again on the HPV vaccine....

destroyer

Wont be that much different to today, but there will be,


More old people
More fat people
More rich people
More poor people
More serious crimes (especially murder)
More storms
More floods
Less religon
Less social interaction
Less family units
Less child/spouse/sex abuse
Less cars
Less shops.

Mr-McBain

I can't see much changing. We're just not an efficient country. We accept failure way too much. I pray that Fainna Fail won't be in power but people have short memories and some sort of coalition between Fianna Gael and Labour will last one term and then will be divided and conquered by FF again. I hope that some sort of basic free wifi is available if not nationwide then at least in the major urban areas. Hopefully there are decent motorways linking up the cities and i hope that they relay most of the rail lines so they can bring in high speed trains. I'd like to see plans for an undersea tunnel between Ireland and Scotland. I'd like to see greater powers given to local government. I'd hope that we have a French style system of government. You might pay more taxes but you get a world class service.

Rhyme

Picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a Portmarnock golf course, not a woman in sight. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of the IFSC, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Spire leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the buildings of Grafton street with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night.

Obi_Wan

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

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

OR its just you have no life

BraziliaNZ

hoverboards and cure for cancer i hope

CrazyRabbit

Something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4rBDUJTnNU

We Orwell just got the year wrong.

c4cat

Well at the moment we are going backwards 2ice as fast as we went forward from 10yrs back............so work it out where we are going to be in ten yrs time, back in the 80's i'd say.................

je suis awesome

smaller population, immigrant population at about 5%. dublin will look fairly different but i don't see much changes with rest of the country. in fact the only changes will be recessive.

jd007

Who_owns_this? wrote: »

One word for you - superpotatoes.

(By 2020 this will officially have become a word.)

Supershpuds!

OneArt

The DART will be the only rail network in the entire country. Dublin Bus will stop at 7 every evening, and Bus Eireann will only serve the cities four times a day. The only hospitals will be in Dublin... In fact, Dublin will be perfectly intact, the rest of the country will be a barren wasteland .

pickarooney

Rhyme wrote: »

Picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a Portmarnock golf course, not a woman in sight. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of the IFSC, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Spire leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the buildings of Grafton street with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night.

I may be drunk, but I like this, especially 'goblin tikis'.

ejmaztec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb4eZ7Z5yk8

mayoireland

2020 two seasons wet and cold season and wet and warm season.mayo still waiting for an all ireland title:D:D

KungPao

Only aul fellas and people who aren't 'with it' will be wearing Skinny Jeans.

The sale and consumption of tobacco products will be a most heinous crime.

Micheal O'Leary will be President, and will rule with an iron fist.

The D4 accent will spread to all areas, and morph into a language in itself. Thus Ireland will no longer be recognised as an English speaking country.

Despite worsening weather, with rain falling every single day, men will still refuse to use an umbrella.

Refusing to speak the new D4 language, Irish soccer fans who follow English clubs, will take it to the next level and start speaking with Liverpool accents, Manchester accents etc.

By order of President O'Leary, Irish Rail shall be renamed Ryan Rail. Dublin Bus to Ryan Bus, Bus Eireann to Bus Ryan and the M50 will be called The Super Ryan Express Way, with a toll of €59 return.