What will Ireland be like in 20 years time?

Question

Will it be like oxygen. Millions of people walking round dazed, not sure were they're going to or coming from, repossessions rife forcing 100,000s into temporary accommodation, the complete collapse of public services starting with the sewage system leaving a faint smell of p**s everywhere you go and finally inflation pushing the price of water up to €3 a bottle.

^ This was stolen from nob nation by the way, but that's what the 80s were like no?

Serious answers only please!! :)

Answer 1

Think more 1950s meets Terminator.

Oil will be too expensive to import, so it'll be back to the bogs and the donkey and cart. No one will be able to afford to buy their own homes, so there'll be three generations living under one roof, but sure the body heat will be needed in the long cold winters that will run from August til June. Dublin will be a kind of post-apocalyptical Sin City, minus the beautiful women, and the Shannon will be the dividing line between the crime-infested, polluted eastern badlands and the remnants of Irish civilisation in the West. There will be two political parties, the Irish-speaking Militant Green Socialist Party and, of course, Fianna Fail (another 20 years means nothing to them). MGSP will be in power west of the Shannon, ruling from the new administrative capital, Castlebar, while FF will be running a guerrilla govt out of St. Lukes. Bertie will have transformed himself into a Brando-esque figure, ruling equally over the crime lords, the farmers and the crooked cops (the horror) and everyone living in the eastern parts will have English accents from watching Sky, as all the Irish channels (bar TG4, of course) will have been disbanded due to expense and general uselessness (we will have developed turf-powered tv sets by then). Sick people will be deported to prevent contagion, as there will be no hospitals. The only medics in the country will be acupuncturists and cosmetic surgeons. All the nurses will have left to take up employment in Dubai. There will be a permanent potato blight. A huge hole will have developed in the ozone layer directly over Mullingar as the entire country will be living on tins of baked beans.

I'll be alright - I just bought some hens and a new duffle coat.  

Answer 2

They'd probably still be working on the m50 and the luas line!

Answer 3

Our horses will be roaming the streets in gangs causing mayhem and stealing stuff to feed their drug habits...

Answer 4

judging by the way this summer has gone I'd reckon climate change will get us before economic problems do. I reckon in twenty years Ireland will be under water.

Answer 5

if it is going to be like the eighties there will be no topshop, H&M ect all there will be is dunnes st bernard wolly jumpers and wrangler jeans and penneys  

Answer 6

We'll all be 20 years older