What will Ireland be like in 10 years time?

Skullsri

Like a trocaire box but skin colour will be the only difference..

previous user

We'll just have reached the bottom of our recession and then the depression that our leaders have been tryin to stave off will hit, and hit hard.

starlit

Think Ireland be in the recession for another three years at least but just as we are slowly getting out of it there will be a double recession within the EU so we are doomed!

Firefox11

You will be able to order a pint from your TV screen.........Finally!!

Columbia

In 10 years Ireland will be lovely and cheap for me to visit on my holidays.

Scanlas The 2nd

People will be saying today's kids are drinking and having sex younger than ever even though it will be the same as today.

drywall

pebbles21 wrote: »

we will be Euro and world cup champions...:D

A bit disappointed they wont win the nations cup.

saa

Depending on how quickly things hit rock bottom.

I think it can be better, even if things are worse we will learn how to live (poor) again.

foxyboxer

Still catching a cold when the US or the UK sneezes.

Dartz

Led by blueshirts.

"It's a celtic cross, we swear. We just shortened and straighten the arms a bit to reflect this time of austerity. Hail Enda! Big Smile!"

headmaster

Hopefully, most of the previous posters on this thread will have croaked and there'll be a much more optimistic group of intelligent people to give opinion and leadership. It shouldn't be too difficult either.

Brendog

Bonos ego will engulf us all.

I am pie

We will have developed a sense of perspective.

foxyboxer

The country will be in awe at the Westlife reunion tour.

Where 'their' songs such as "I have a dream", "Against All Odds", "Uptown Girl", "My Girl", "Mandy", "You Raise me Up" will have the baying crowds awestruck.

:pac:

celticcrash

Turkmenistan will be sending aid to some poor country somewhere on the west coast of europe.

foxyboxer

You will be legally bound to stop and talk when a chugger asks "Do you have a minute for Concern?"

If you've already signed up for the direct debit, the law will state that the both of you must observe a minutes silence for "The Poor" with sad solemn facial expressions.

jester77

U2 will release Achtung Baby 30th Anniversary Über Deluxe Box Set

Cork boy 55

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. The home, in short, of a people living the life that God desires that men should live. With the tidings that make such an Ireland possible, St. Patrick came to our ancestors fifteen hundred years ago promising happiness here no less than happiness hereafter. It was the pursuit of such an Ireland that later made our country worthy to be called the island of saints and scholars. It was the idea of such an Ireland - happy, vigorous, spiritual - that fired the imagination of our poets; that made successive generations of patriotic men give their lives to win religious and political liberty; and that will urge men in our own and future generations to die, if need be, so that these liberties may be preserved. One hundred years ago, the Young Irelanders, by holding up the vision of such an Ireland before the people, inspired and moved them spiritually as our people had hardly been moved since the Golden Age of Irish civilisation. Fifty years later, the founders of the Gaelic League similarly inspired and moved the people of their day. So, later, did the leaders of the Irish Volunteers. We of this time, if we have the will and active enthusiasm, have the opportunity to inspire and move our generation in like manner. We can do so by keeping this thought of a noble future for our country constantly before our eyes, ever seeking in action to bring that future into being, and ever remembering that it is for our nation as a whole that future must be sought.

ICE HOUSE

Tumble Weed blowing down Grafton street, heavily boarded up buildings everywhere with the odd eye peering out through a cracked glass windows. And some guy ringing a bell in the distance.

ScumLord

It'll be a very nice place to live, we should be well on our way to recovering from the zombie crisis by then.

veloc123

Black, Proud and socially deprived...with burning buildings everywhere a bit like L.A. during the riots...only we don't have Hollywood to make us feel safe...

vampire of kilmainham

it's bad enough now but id say in 10yrs it will be really gone right down the drain but iam not worried i wont be living in it

vampire of kilmainham

pebbles21 wrote: »

we will be Euro and world cup champions...:D

fcuk euro and world cup it's allways about bleedin sport

vampire of kilmainham

gerry adems will be dicatator the gardai will all wear military gear and carry m16 armalites we will all have to say heil gerry to his photograph every morning and evening and we will be recorded doing so

mdoyler2

We will still be paying off our debts from the government bank guarantee scheme.

Jonniealan

Have you ever seen Mad Max 2 ? Well it will be like that except pissin rain

foxyboxer

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

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. The home, in short, of a people living the life that God desires that men should live. With the tidings that make such an Ireland possible, St. Patrick came to our ancestors fifteen hundred years ago promising happiness here no less than happiness hereafter. It was the pursuit of such an Ireland that later made our country worthy to be called the island of saints and scholars. It was the idea of such an Ireland - happy, vigorous, spiritual - that fired the imagination of our poets; that made successive generations of patriotic men give their lives to win religious and political liberty; and that will urge men in our own and future generations to die, if need be, so that these liberties may be preserved. One hundred years ago, the Young Irelanders, by holding up the vision of such an Ireland before the people, inspired and moved them spiritually as our people had hardly been moved since the Golden Age of Irish civilisation. Fifty years later, the founders of the Gaelic League similarly inspired and moved the people of their day. So, later, did the leaders of the Irish Volunteers. We of this time, if we have the will and active enthusiasm, have the opportunity to inspire and move our generation in like manner. We can do so by keeping this thought of a noble future for our country constantly before our eyes, ever seeking in action to bring that future into being, and ever remembering that it is for our nation as a whole that future must be sought.

And comely maidens dancing at the crossroads?

mdoyler2

here is a look into the future

spoofilyj

The same pretty much, we'll probably be in another boom by then, and be up our own arses again...

Or else it will still be , dirt, scraping misery, misfortune, pulling and dragging, weaping walls, colds, flu's, runny noses, oul TB...etc etc

Wattle

Some will still be feasting off Joe Duffy's dead carcass.

Cork boy 55

foxyboxer wrote: »

And comely maidens dancing at the crossroads?

thats a urban - myth it was not in his speech.

He says laughter of happy maidens

foxyboxer

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

thats a urban - myth it was not in his speech.

He says laughter of happy maidens

I know.

kieranfitz

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

thats a urban - myth it was not in his speech.

He says laughter of happy maidens

More likely we'll have cum filled maidens flogging it at the cross roads for a stale heel of bread.

Noffles

There'll be no money spent on any sort of development for the next 10 years... and 10 after that...

So, anything bad now will be 10 years worse... and then 20 years worse 10 years later than that.

And anyone with an iota of sense has left the place to rot.