Predictions for 2018

England to get knocked out of the Group stage of the World Cup
Louise O Neill/Una Mullaley involved in a scandal that'll take them down
Al Porter will try to make a comeback doing, I am an alcoholic/depressed or something interview on the Late Late show and then weasel back onto rte (but will fail due to ratings)
Indo to keep forcing Amy Huberman/Vogue Williams/Amanda Brunker/Roz Purcell onto us
There will be more of a backlash to the sjw/overly left/pc brigade for the increasing nonsense they try to push

Noveight

Mustaches will become fashionable among the majority of blokes. Man, that'd be sweet.

The record for most lethal shooting spree in the US will be broken (currently stands at 58 after Vegas in October).

freshpopcorn

A boards user will start a petition to end a story line in Fair City!

branie2

boarding schools become popular with young children from the age of eight, thanks to Harry Potter

Dr Crayfish

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I predict a riot.

I predict a diet

Ipso

branie2 wrote: »

boarding schools become popular with young children from the age of eight, thanks to Harry Potter

In 2002?

branie2

or new novels

branie2

Fair City is axed by RTE

branie2

The Rapture takes place

JenovaProject

There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, ehh, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi.. with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.

Ipso

The cheese makers will be blessed (not all makers of dairy products as some would like you to think).

JenovaProject

The demon shall bear a nine-bladed sword. Nine-bladed! Not two or five or seven, but nine, which he will wield on all wretched sinners, sinners just like you sir, there, and the horns shall be on the head, with which he will...

JenovaProject

May as well go for a hat-trick of prophecies..

And the bezan shall be huge and black, and the eyes thereof red with the blood of living creatures, and the whore of Babylon shall ride forth on a three-headed serpent, and throughout the lands, there'll be a great rubbing of parts

branie2

A male Irish celebrity will come out as transgender

KungPao

branie2 wrote: »

A male Irish celebrity will come out as transgender

if it’s that lad from Telly Bingo I’d be shocked.

Lucy8080

We will confirm ,once and for all, that Star Wars fans are Nerds and always will be.

Their hopes are up right now, a new movie about to be released.....but we all know it's the last breath of a dying swan .

We knew it back in the 70s and despite their indomitable spirit that one day the world would come around to their view, it ain't happening.

Feckin' nerds. I blame them for everything from Trump to Kim Jong - these are an example of two Jocks who have the Nerds supplying enough intelligence to keep them in power.

The feckin' Nerds know this. Too scared to stop it.Listen Nerds,without your help they would have no weapons.

Away off to your new hollywood screen fantasy and your plastic Darth Vader dolls for boys (oh the shame of it)!

I'm with the much maligned thicko's and blonde's who only ever wanted to get off with each other and keep everything simple.

They never had the brains to inherit power...but you Nerds handed it to them on a plate (please don't hit me jock).

Grow up Nerds.Use your intelligence to Save the World. Stop watching Star Wars. Ya big intelligent eejits.

Uthur

great predictions!! the cloak one made me genuinely LOL

Malayalam

I approve of the OP predictions. It's a lot for one year though, I feel the spread might be more like 3 years. Don't have any predictions to offer myself. Nothing - up to and including alien invasion - would surprise me all that very much.

MarkY91

Conor McGregor will defend a belt.



Actually, what a hopess prediction.

c_man

It's been a while since anything big has kicked off in the Middle East involving Israel, so I wager in 2018 we'll see a big military campaign by them.

The World Cup will be nearly cancelled after foreign fans continually run a Streets of Rage gauntlet in Russia. The thugs will be reined in after international outrage.

Election in Ireland, Leo to remain in power.

A terror attack in Europe involving drones will see governments worldwide rush through ill-thought out legislation on them. The whole area will eventually get a proper look and we'll see international standards emerge.

Canis Lupus

diomed wrote: »

Posers who drink water from plastic bottles will get their come-uppance.

Just heard an advert on the radio for canned sparkling water.

The end times are near.

Gwynplaine

That auld dinosaur Prince Philip will croak.
Gay Byrne too.
X Factor will be cancelled.
A terror attack will happen on Irish soil. (Hopefully not)
Saoirse Ronan will win the Oscar, and we'll never fecking hear the end of it.

badabing106

Taylor swift will have a new beau and a break up and pen a song about it

More terror attacks in Europe.
Trump to start building the wall.
Brexit to start to look more realisable.

PeterParker957

badabing106 wrote: »

Taylor swift will have a new beau and a break up and pen a song about it

What madness is this ??!! :D:D

branie2

Mayo wins the All-Ireland Football Final for the first time

LirW

branie2 wrote: »

Mayo wins the All-Ireland Football Final for the first time

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you wish.

Sephiroth_dude

Cork to break away from the Island of Ireland and form its own republic.

Arlene Foster to become president of Ireland.

topper75

Maliyah Enough Typographer wrote: »

Indo to keep forcing Amy Huberman/Vogue Williams/Amanda Brunker/Roz Purcell onto us

I always wondered who was still buying that paper.
It was you!

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Saoirse Ronan will win the Oscar, and we'll never fecking hear the end of it.

With the tyranny of channel choice, you hear what you want to hear.

Boom_Bap

Donuts will become acceptable as one of our 5 a day as long as a fruit jam is contained within.

Here are my predictions:

Oh. Wait. You can't do bullet points though Quick Reply. Have to go through Advanced. Too lazy for that.

Anyway.

My Predictions:

- I'll have a good 2018.

- You'll have a good 2018.

- You'll be a year older and hopefully a year wiser.

- You will achieve everything you set out to achieve.

- So will I.

There.

PeterParker957

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Donuts will become acceptable as one of our 5 a day as long as a fruit jam is contained within.

Can we ask that for Terry's Chocolate Oranges too please ????

My other prediction:

At some point if any of the events the OP mentions happen -- even if vaguely relating to what he said, he will go back, quote it, and say, "told you so", as if he is some Nostradamus motherf*cker.

Boom_Bap

PeterParker957 wrote: »

Can we ask that for Terry's Chocolate Oranges too please ????

That and Apple Pie are on the 2019 agenda.

LirW

Another one:

- The 8th will be repealed after talks will focus on bad early pregnancy care due to the 8th and abortion will be legalized up until 12 weeks in all cases.

- The liberal/left will find themselves in a crisis and start to crumble apart in small groups due to ongoing controversies where political correctness and the own agenda overrules the autonomy of people and laws. The left will have to establish themselves and some groups will move more to the mid, while some will move a lot further to the far left. Violent acts from more extreme groups will arise.

- In late 2018 the CB will make a statement that high LTV mortgages from plenty of buyers will not be sustainable over the next 20 years because the outlook shows that a percentage new mortgage holders won't be able to have continuous employment. Nobody takes this statement seriously. House prices in urban areas will continue to rise and there will be more building for the 300k+ market.

- A proper public transport crisis will begin to unfold in the second half of 2018.

- The US will focus even more on America First, there will be an attempt of Impeaching Trump, but it'll fail.

- In the EU, far right parties will gain more popularity, taking the new Austrian government as a good example.

- Violence in Italy will arise targeting refugees, the talks about North African refugee camps will come up where people can apply for asylum in Libya.

- Something something North Korea.

branie2

A fierce row will erupt in a family Christmas on Christmas day 2018, over a word in a game of Scrabble

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

branie2 wrote: »

Mayo wins the All-Ireland Football Final for the first time

We've won three. Even if they were mostly during the Korean War.

branie2

My mistake, sorry

Bitches Be Trypsin

Queen Elizabeth will die.

8th will be repealed.

Cuts to college grants.

GLaDOS

>New Tool Album.
>Half life 3 released.
>New "Song of Ice and Fire Book" finished.
>Apocalypse.

branie2

Our Lady appears in Knock and Achill Island to give out to Joe Coleman and Christina Gallagher for conning people in Her name

branie2

Princess Kate has a baby boy

noel100

Bitcoin will hit $100000

Odhinn

We will finally have a month dedicated to the very real problem of Male Gee Pain.

Ipso

noel100 wrote: »

Bitcoin will hit $100000

Zimbabwean $!

branie2

Hipsters will no longer be cool

Widdershins

Pithythefool wrote: »

The societal impact of social media will become more visible (especially on younger people), and a growing trend will continue where people abandon this aspect of the internet entirely, leading it to become more and more of an echo chamber that is more and more ignored.

Identity politics will continue to annoy the f**k out of normal people, inadvertently pushing them more to the right. Elections will bear this out.

Housing crisis will continue until some external factor devastates the ridiculous property situation. God forbid we could fix it on our own. Could be next year or soon after. In the post.

Some multinational scandal that will put a spotlight on us once again.

Aldi and lidl will combine to form lidaldialde.

There will be the beginning of a sea change with society rejecting all forms of controlling and divisive identity politics. Society will embrace common sense.

Ipso

branie2 wrote: »

Hipsters will no longer be cool

No longer?

Widdershins

LirW wrote: »

DON'T YOU DARE!


One thing I know for certain, Low cut bell bottoms will make their come-back, maybe paired with blue sparkly eye shadow.

They already are 'in'. The seventies are in fashion. Velvet flares ftw.

Cork Lass

New Years day will fall on January 1st yet again