Ireland in 2020 ?

Demonon

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

Will this recession finally be over?

Will we be in the middle of another boom?

Will FF still be in power?

Will the half a million jobless be back working?

What industries will be booming/collapsed?

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

I predict a lot of the big IT/Pharma companies will be relocated to cheaper countries and state finances will have stabilized but economic prosperity will be a distant memory. NAMA will be looked upon as a serious f**k-up. We will have settled back into pre-boom lifestyles, no new cars every year, no 3 holidays every year, no amature property landlords, etc. I believe a lot of foreign nationals will have left the country. I also think we will become friendlier to each other, to our neighbours, etc <-- This is already starting.

It will be interesting to bump this thread in 2020 to see if peoples suggestions have come true.

Hank_Jones

Demonon wrote: »

It will be interesting to bump this thread in 2020 to see if peoples suggestions have come true.

I predict that this thread will never be bumped.

Royal Irish

Havent you seen the movie 2012 !!!

CHD

It will rain prob

Tarzan_man

Demonon wrote: »

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

Will this recession finally be over?

Yep, I'd say we'll be in the new boom stage! Celtic Tiger 2.0 perhaps?!

Demonon wrote: »

Will we be in the middle of another boom?

Should have read this question before answerin the the first tbh, but yes!

Demonon wrote: »

Will FF still be in power?

Dear god no, if they are I won't be here. Bunch of gobsheens.

Demonon wrote: »

Will the half a million jobless be back working?

I'd expect a slight increase in the amount of people working, not much, but something substantial enough to be on the 9 o clock news someday. Which isn't mucg tbf

Demonon wrote: »

What industries will be booming/collapsed?

Anything internet, or to do with content creation that'd be sold through the interent. Augmented reality being the main one. I can only hope that that market stays user-created and one company doesn't have a monopoly on such things.

Demonon wrote: »

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

Yep, yep.

Demonon wrote: »

I predict a lot of the big IT/Pharma companies will be relocated to cheaper countries and state finances will have stabilized but economic prosperity will be a distant memory. NAMA will be looked upon as a serious f**k-up. We will have settled back into pre-boom lifestyles, no new cars every year, no 3 holidays every year, no amature property landlords, etc. I believe a lot of foreign nationals will have left the country. I also think we will become friendlier to each other, to our neighbours, etc <-- This is already starting.

I can't comment on the IT/Pharma stuff, apart from I think IT professions will come back strong. I can only hope we become more friendly (well when i say friendly, I mean you'd have an interest in other people and your community, not that ****e fake "OH HOW ARE YOU?! THATS LOVELY!" retarded fake friendliness) Nama is already a **** up, so no change there. Cheaper travel, so I'd say more holidays if anything.

Demonon wrote: »

It will be interesting to bump this thread in 2020 to see if peoples suggestions have come true.

5er on mine to win!

Sisko

If there's no flying cars, I'm going postal.

CHD

Sisko wrote: »

If there's no flying cars, I'm going postal.

An Post will be gone by then.

civis_liberalis

Demonon wrote: »

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

I'll be in my mid-thirties going through an early mid-life crisis.

Demonon wrote: »

Will this recession finally be over?

I think this recession has plenty of legs left in it yet, but I think we should have recovered from it for the most part, with no real boom or anything. Unless of course, another global financial crisis hits again. We will always be sensitive to that with the way our economy is set up.

Demonon wrote: »

Will we be in the middle of another boom?

Doubt it.

Demonon wrote: »

Will FF still be in power?

Quite likely, possibly via losing power and getting back in when the opposition continues their "good work".

Demonon wrote: »

Will the half a million jobless be back working?

I'd say we'll return to a situation where the unemployed won't like it to be known that they are. At the moment, the out-of-work (for the most part) don't feel it reflects badly on them. It isn't a big deal to admit it. It seems more common for people to ask "Are ye workin'?" than to ask "What are ye workin' at?". I see that reversing again.

Demonon wrote: »

What industries will be booming/collapsed?

The person that knows that will make a fortune.

Demonon wrote: »

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

I think it's quite possible the Euro could become the strongest currency in the mid to long-term.

Demonon wrote: »

I predict a lot of the big IT/Pharma companies will be relocated to cheaper countries and state finances will have stabilized but economic prosperity will be a distant memory.

Agree to a certain extent. We are fast falling behind where we once were one of the leaders. I don't think we'll be seeing any boom, but I'd like to think we'll be ticking along ok. Nothing spectacular.

Demonon wrote: »

NAMA will be looked upon as a serious f**k-up.

As opposed to what it's seen as now?

Demonon wrote: »

We will have settled back into pre-boom lifestyles, no new cars every year, no 3 holidays every year, no amature property landlords, etc.

These have gone out of the window for most people now anyway. As for amateur property landlords... I'm not sure what you mean there?

Demonon wrote: »

I believe a lot of foreign nationals will have left the country.

And quite a lot will stay here as they have settled down and started families.

Demonon wrote: »

I also think we will become friendlier to each other, to our neighbours, etc <-- This is already starting.

I'd argue the opposite. I just don't see the evidence myself for what you are saying.

Demonon wrote: »

It will be interesting to bump this thread in 2020 to see if peoples suggestions have come true.

This sort of thread is started all over the internet, but it rarely if ever gets followed up on.

FearDark

2020 is the year Jesus is coming back. I know this for a fact because he told me.

Hank_Jones

FearDark wrote: »

2020 is the year Jesus is coming back. I know this for a fact because he told me.

It's strange how when people talk to a religious deity,
it's never the lottery numbers they are given, or the true meaning of life.

It's always some nonsense that nobody will believe.

m@cc@

There will be Father Ted repeats on RTÉ.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055801006

owenc

I hope the uk comes out of the eu i hate it!!! But thats only 10 years and they take forever do things in this country.

DazMarz

CHD wrote: »

An Post will be gone by then.

Ah Jaysus, don't be saying things like that!!!

But in fairness, that's my job now...

Hopefully by 2020 I'll be a sergeant at least and well on my way to Detective Inspector...:)

by 2020, I reckon the economy will have settled and the country will be back to where she was circa. 1993/4 or so. Doing well, but not as well as the boom years.

bonerm

It'll be like whatever England was like 10 years ago.

hal9000

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

billy the squid

Reeling in the years will still end in 1999 before starting all over again.

If we haven't bankrupted ourselves, we should be fully established members of the axis of evil by 2020

stovelid

It's a wild hunch on my behalf, but I think that everything we think, do and say will be in the pills that we take every day.

Pauleta

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?
Rainy and the catholic church has been replaced by the GAA as the media and police controling secretive organisation

Will this recession finally be over?
Technically its already over

Will we be in the middle of another boom?
Mediocre at best

Will FF still be in power?
Yes but after an absence of a couple of years

Will the half a million jobless be back working?
Nope, in an attempt to out do each other all the party's kept raising the dole. It will be at 500 a week so there is no point in working

What industries will be booming/collapsed?
the catholic church will be gone (fingers crossed)
The GAA's power will be ailing because despite it being on TV all the time and nobody watching it, they cant force people into grounds.
Headshops will be thriving
Publicans will be moaning that they are going out of business
Taco Bell will be the very prominent
Boxing will be smalltime because of the rise of MMA
Taxi drivers will be complaining that there are too many of them

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?
Yes and yes

Banned Account

I think that there will be an epidemic of dinosaur related attacks on pensioners. After scientists crack the Jurassic Park idea, we will realise that monsanto will increase the price of the world's food supply (for which it will now hold the patents), the dinosaurs will be the first to feel the effects of this new shortfall in world food supply.

Their anti-nama protests at the Dail will become increasingly violent and they will turn to loitering in large groups in common areas of the ghost estates in Leitrim and Navan. Eventually, they will begin to pick off innocent pensioners on the way back from the butchers and the government will turn a blind eye in order to relieve the strain on the healthcare system.

Joe Duffy will resign as commander in chief of the universe due to mounting speculation that he claimed mileage from Uranus and the Keatings will formally announce that the split is now permanent. There will be no more foxes following the whacking day slaughters sponsored by Sky News and Simon Cowell will be assinated by a 10 year old eunoch.

Oh yeah, and there will still be threads on Israel, Head Shops and dole scroungers - this is after Borads.ie acquires Google and Facebook.
Probably.

Killer Pigeon

Ever seen book of eli? That what it would be like.

soups05

Hank_Jones wrote: »

It's strange how when people talk to a religious deity,
it's never the lottery numbers they are given, or the true meaning of life.

It's always some nonsense that nobody will believe.

its strange how when you talk to god your a holy person

but when god talks back your a nutter :D

Biggins

Demonon wrote: »

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

1. Will this recession finally be over?

2. Will we be in the middle of another boom?

3. Will FF still be in power?

4. Will the half a million jobless be back working?

5. What industries will be booming/collapsed?

6. Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

7. (a) I predict a lot of the big IT/Pharma companies will be relocated to cheaper countries and state finances will have stabilized but economic prosperity will be a distant memory. (b) NAMA will be looked upon as a serious f**k-up. We will have settled back into pre-boom lifestyles, no new cars every year, no 3 holidays every year, no amature property landlords, etc. (c) I believe a lot of foreign nationals will have left the country. (d) I also think we will become friendlier to each other, to our neighbours, etc <-- This is already starting.

It will be interesting to bump this thread in 2020 to see if peoples suggestions have come true.

1. Yes.

2. Possibly - but hopefully one better speeding at a pace we are controlling more so. Like Canada did already at the same time as our "Celtic Tiger".

3. Gawd I hope not - not unless there is a complete clean sweep there. The vestiges of the past personnel, methods and the ideology of fellow self-interest back-scratching gone along with too much parochial level thinking too.

4. Hopefully a good deal of them.

5. I.T. will still expand but in the software areas. We cannot (and clearly should not) rely too much on the hardware areas (production lines etc). We should be more so using the goods/resources (natural or not) that we have at home. Be it from higher educated brains just leaving colleges and hands-on training, to natural resources such as our ability to grow more natural foods in a still green country side that is not as constructed over as many of our European neighbours - so what should be booming should also be food production facilities too. We are missing an opportunity here and our food/farm industry should be better supported.

What will collapse? Certainly a number of factories doing manual production line work. While we will always have our fair share of them based here, we all can see the emergence of other states such as China and India, etc taking over in this area and now that states in Africa are catching up too, at cheaper rates of employment there rather than here, reliance on production-line work as a base for continual employment would be a reliance based upon a shaky foundation for the state.

6. Yes, to both for a number of very complicated reasons.

7. A number of issues there so I broke it up.
(a) A number might go but if we can show the big (and small) players in this business, that we have the educated brains in play here, rather than just the physical work too, with a good combination of the two been seen to be present too at the same time, in the one place, we stand a better opportunity of holding onto employers. Add to this tax incentives (and other ideas) carefully balanced (between interests of the state and interests of the company) and we should be able to still hold our own in the area mentioned by the OP.

(b) If a boom should happen again, I think we should get rid of NAMA as soon as possible. Otherwise, its going to haunt generations to come. Is it going to fail/succeed? Educated brains on both sides of "yes"/"no" say different. Only time will tell...

(c) They are already leaving - big time. They will however return in vast numbers when things start to improve.
Like it or not this matter has to be discussed (in a thread by itself? Its a big topic.)
Short version: We should apply tighter control of whom comes across our borders. Allow varying applicable numbers to come in according to corresponding already present higher education skills, need for manual labour requirements and a modicum of refugees to be fair and decent to our fellow man/woman/child.

(d) As the world is growing ever smaller via communication methods and interdependency, we are indeed becoming more open to other relationships with others beyond our very borders.
Except for rare medical reasons (such as the spread of an illness that might mutate) I see no reason why such friendlier relationships shouldn't continue. It will do us - and them, the world of good.

Lando Griffin

2020 we will be selling natural energy on a massive scale to the rest of Europe and so making us the new Airabia of Europe. We will be making so much money that we will have little or no tax, all political and religious decisions will be made by the supreme being John Gormley & HRH Eamon Ryan. Northern Ireland will be annexed and the people there reprogrammed. Ryan Turbidy Will be hosting the Euro Vision for the fourth time in a row. A statue to Gerry Ryan will be attracting thousands after a distraute woman saw it moving its hand towards its mouth. Joe Coleman will have sought planning permission for a monster ark. Ronaldo has just won the Champions League Final with Athlone town

Winty

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?
No & Yes

PIGS will fall, mark my word.

Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain will not last with the Euro.

PeterIanStaker

It'll be like Mad Max - except raining.

Calibos

Sisko wrote: »

If there's no flying cars, I'm going postal.

In 2020, people no longer say, "If there's no flying cars, I'm going Postal".

They will say, "There are still no flying cars, THATS IT !! I'm going Cabbie".

GarH

But you left out the most important question?

Who will be hosting The Late, Late Show?

Karl Hungus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

admiralofthefleet

we will all have some type of vision

thebigbiffo

if i'm not dead, i'll have enough money for a holiday

plein de force

Demonon wrote: »

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

1.Will this recession finally be over?

2.Will we be in the middle of another boom?

3.Will FF still be in power?

4.Will the half a million jobless be back working?

5.What industries will be booming/collapsed?

6.Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?



It will be interesting to bump this thread in 2020 to see if peoples suggestions have come true.

1. Yes

2. I think so and hopefully one that's managed better than the last one and one that's based on sound foundations not a property bubble

3. Hard one to call, they could be but hopefully people have seen they're just not fit to run a country

4. I think so due to this new boom i think we'll be in the middle of.

5. IT will be strong, internet based business, multi-national companies will be big again i think with a strong focus on multi-lingual graduates due to increased globalisation which is why i think there'll be a lot of foreign people working here as we're ****e with languages in this country

i'd say a lot of manufacturing industry will have collapsed due to it being cheaper abroad

6. Yes and yes


and i just realised i won't be living here anymore

ScumLord

Demonon wrote: »

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

Will this recession finally be over?

This recession, probably.

Will we be in the middle of another boom?

Unlikely as the cost of doing everything goes up due to peak oil which by some accounts has already begun but at the very least will have started by 2020.

Will FF still be in power?

Probably.

Will the half a million jobless be back working?

Possibly, as oil becomes more and more expensive good old fashioned manual labour will become financially viable again.

What industries will be booming/collapsed?

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

We'll more than likely be completely dependant on them.

By 2020 fish stocks will be in very bad shape with peak oil being the only thing that could save them so expect the price of fish to sky rocket too. Cheap food from overseas will become expensive by today's standards.

Banned Account

ScumLord wrote: »

Possibly, as oil becomes more and more expensive good old fashioned manual labour will become financially viable again.

By 2020 fish stocks will be in very bad shape with peak oil being the only thing that could save them so expect the price of fish to sky rocket too. Cheap food from overseas will become expensive by today's standards.

So will Cod Liver Oil become the most expensive commodity on earth?


*buys sonatogen shares*

peasant

This:

The ideal Ireland that we would have, the Ireland that we dreamed of, would be the home of a people who valued material wealth only as a basis for right living, of a people who, satisfied with frugal comfort, devoted their leisure to the things of the spirit – a land whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contest of athletic youths and the laughter of happy maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age.

...finally

(because there will be feck all else going on)

Wazdakka

Boards.ie Ltd will actually own the country for a brief period of time,
Then Dev & Co will end up going to Vegas for a weekend where they get so blitzed on cheap vermooth and computer duster that they put the whole lot on black 28 at a table in the Luxor.

Fortunately by 2020 most of Las Vegas is actually run by Bertie Ahern and the reanimated head of Charlie Haughey.
They decide that the kip just isn't worth owning a second time and give it back to the Irish people.

Also, there will be hoverboards :cool:

Banned Account

Wazdakka wrote: »

Also, there will be hoverboards :cool:

Now ye're hovertalking!

billy the squid

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

we will all have some type of vision

eurovision???

Riddickcule

Demonon wrote: »

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

Will this recession finally be over?

Will we be in the middle of another boom?

Will FF still be in power?

Will the half a million jobless be back working?

What industries will be booming/collapsed?

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

We will have another economic boom, starting in 2012. Hopefully it will be based on exports and investment and not property and credit.

FF will not be in power for a good while, in the 2012 election there will be a Labour-Fine Gael coalition formed with Gilmore as Taoiseach and Bruton as Minister for Finance.

Hopefully Renewable Energy will be our booming industry by this time.

We will still be in the euro and it is the worlds most important currency by now. We will still be part of the ever growing EU.

Mike 1972

Daily mail readers will be foaming at the mouth as Nigeria begins ascension talks to join the EU

_sparkie_

we will have found a sustainable renewable resource or will will all be getting ready to die.

Wibbs

Demonon wrote: »

Will this recession finally be over?

Will we be in the middle of another boom?

Possibly. There's another population bubble on the way that would be maturing around 2020. Among other factors it was the previous population bubble that drove the housing bubble.

Will FF still be in power?

Failing a major screwup they'll still be a large party. I can see more independents and maybe even another party kicking off. left of centre or right, hard to say, but there are enough disgruntled types in all the current parties to maybe split and form a new one.

Will the half a million jobless be back working?

With more and more people coming into a constricted job market, I suspect the number will stay pretty stable, but more will be working to offset that. we need to change a few things locally though. Up the skillbase, lower the costs. Places like China and India IMHO have peaked somewhat. The Chinese model is unsustainable in a lot of areas of its industrial output. We need to be in a position to exploit that.

What industries will be booming/collapsed?

IMHO The web will change massively. Current freedoms will be a thing of the past. Big biz has a big presence online ATM, but little enough revenue generated compared to that presence. You will pay more for content in the future. Linking willy nilly in defence of your side of the debate, like we do here every day will be harder to do. You will be tracked much more. The reasons given will be for security, but far more importantly it'll mean control of the medium(Forget downloading torrents when your PC has a readily traceable ID. Sure some will circumvent it, like any security, but the days of amateurs doing so en masse will come to an end). It has happened with every industry and social movement before. The web will be no different. We're in the last days of the wild west. Pioneers take the arrows, settlers take the land, business seeks to control the land.

Green energy will be a boom area. More localised, small scale enterprises will have more importance using a big bi conduit to sell their wares. The iTunes/Apps for iPhone model. I think more people will buy into things that last, rather than transitory fashion items. EG Cars. The basic chassis currently lasts longer, much longer than the first owner usually keeps the car. Maybe a basic chassis, but upgradeable over time when fashion dictates. People forget that the Ford model T was billed as the only car you'll ever need. This upgradeablility will be "greener" too. Battery powered cars will be seen as a dead end. Fuel cell cars will come to the fore. Air travel will become expensive again. This will force more localised thinking too. Now techies may say that video conferencing will take over, but its been around for a very long time, yet people still prefer to press flesh, hence the huge amount of biz class flyers.

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

Yes and yes, but I think we'll be a cashless economy. If banknotes survive in my lifetime I'll be surprised.

NAMA will be looked upon as a serious f**k-up.

I think it already is TBH. IMHO many of those who consider it isnt are still using the same outmoded economic notions that caused the issue in the first place.

tomplaya

Also, there will be hoverboards :cool:[/QUOTE]

in five years time!!----thats the length of time left to the invention of them(check out back to the future 2:p:p).then you will be able to avail of the government sponsored hover to work scheme.

ROCKMAN

I'll be 50.

A old man .

So I will not give a fcuk about the country anymore.:D

Caoimhín

Woah, the crazies are out in force in this thread.

The GAA becomes the new Gestapo? Someone was high last night...

owenc

Lando Griffin wrote: »

2020 we will be selling natural energy on a massive scale to the rest of Europe and so making us the new Airabia of Europe. We will be making so much money that we will have little or no tax, all political and religious decisions will be made by the supreme being John Gormley & HRH Eamon Ryan. Northern Ireland will be annexed and the people there reprogrammed. Ryan Turbidy Will be hosting the Euro Vision for the fourth time in a row. A statue to Gerry Ryan will be attracting thousands after a distraute woman saw it moving its hand towards its mouth. Joe Coleman will have sought planning permission for a monster ark. Ronaldo has just won the Champions League Final with Athlone town

Naw, you can dream on Northern Ireland won't be axed!

thetonynator

Demonon wrote: »

What do you predict Ireland will be like in 2020?

Will this recession finally be over?

Will we be in the middle of another boom?

Will FF still be in power?

Will the half a million jobless be back working?

What industries will be booming/collapsed?

Will we still be in the euro currency, or even still in the EU?

The ''recession'' will end in the next year - 2 years, i.e. we will have slight economic growth. But the effects of the recession will last much longer. I predict we will be in a time of slow economic growth, with high unemployment, but noot as high as it is now - maybe 8-10%.

FF will return to power after a series of rainbow coalitions which will collapse over short periods of time over the next few years. They should return to power in around 2015/2016.

Industry will not be as strong, with our economy not as export led as before Many industries will relocate to India as they will have the highly skilled low paid work force that we once had but that we lost around 2000.

We mat exit the Euro currency in about two years time when there will be a sharp rise in interest rates due to central european nations economic recovery. However we will be much slower to exit this recession than ohter countries, and the high interest rates will cripple our recovery. This will lead to our exiting the euro and the severe devaluation of the punt in order to help pay back our borrowings. However we will remain in the EU, unless the EU stops subsidising farmers and does not have a replacement for the CAP when it expires in a few years time.

Can't wait for this thread to be bumped in 10 years!!!

Dirty Frank

Doc should've sorted out his mucking around with the space time continum by now, so I could nip on and check it out. Though I'm suprised Skynet hasn't yet become self aware and initiated the war with the machines.

aDeener

how could ya find a thread from 10 years ago, predicting what 2010 would be like??

MJ23

Westshíte will still be churning out cover versions
Robbie Williams will be out
Ashley Cole will be out
20 fags will cost €20

aDeener

MJ23 wrote: »

Westshíte will still be churning out cover versions
Robbie Williams will be out
Ashley Cole will be out
20 fags will cost €20

emmett stagg will be happy

120_Minutes

Ireland will resemble the capital wasteland from the game fallout 3, leaving me at a distinct advantage over the rest of you.