Culture in 2015

What are we eating?

Same menu as 2005 but different sources.

• Irish Beef
• Chips from Eastern Europe potatoes
• Peas from Israel
• Ice Cream from Irish milk powder

What are we watching?

• Big Cars 3
• We All Want to Be Millionaires
• Greed is Good

Most popular Websites

• www.AAtrafficwatch.ie
• www.buildyourhomeonline.com
• www.celebs.com

What are we selling

• Cork-Dublin road permit - 4 months to run. EUR 240.
• Hybrid car, 2009, 169,000km save 50% on your fuel bills!
• I want to start a new car pool for those travelling from Mallow to Cork weekdays. Anyone interested call.

Headlines

• New incinerator reduces waste export bill - We have finally given in and built incenerators as we seem unable to find any other alternative. This has reduced the cost of waste, much of which was previously exported.
• Irish muslim council deplores government stance on Libyan accession - Libya joins the EU
• Protests and nostalgia as UK finally joins Euro - The EU has become a more popular currency, more and more contracts are written Euros instead of Dollars. The UK, not wanting to be left out of a good thing, finally switches from the Pound to the Euro.
• Fly Waterford to Iraq - Air travel has continued to grow and with new business links between Ireland and Iraq, even small airports such as Waterford are offering flights.
• Irish grand slam marred by doping scandal - Sport continues to be a serious subject and winning more important than ever. Drugs are found in all sports.
• Group Four end of year results show firth year of consecutive growth - With the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, security firms are doing well.
• Local Government Bill abandoned - Localisers on retreat - Moves to put more power in local government have not succeeded.
• Hydrogen economy still very promising - There has been no real drive to replace oil with hydrogen and the costs of using hydrogen still remains high, so the Hydrogen economy is still an idea for the future.
• French Fusion demonstration plant already over budget - The dream of Nuclear fusion is having significant amounts of money thrown at it.
• Child abduction foiled by GPS watch - Another security story.
• One-off rural housing now half of new development - The trend for building large,isolated and energy demanding houses in the countryside.
• Domestic heating cost rise - renewed call for Insulation grants - Ireland still not offering householders financial incentives to become more energy efficient.