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Sat 01 Jan 2010What will Ireland be like in 2050?
While our population will be older and our summers much warmer, we will still be popping down to the shop for milk and the newspaper in 40 years’ time, writes STEPHEN KINSELLA
TODAY, WE are as far away from the year 2050 as we are from 1970. Think about the changes we have seen in Irish society from 1970 to today. We are getting older as a society, and there are more of us. The Catholic Church is no longer the cultural and political force it once was; less than half of the people in the country still go to Mass every week, and today only one in four of us wants to see Church-run schools.
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