Old Moore’s creates hostages to fortune!
Old Moore’s Almanac continues to be popular – though it’s probably more for their marts listings for farmers than for their predictions which were quite off the mark last year.
The publication got it wrong on a number of scores but that doesn’t stop people reading more predictions for 2015 as it’s all in the spirit of fun, which is an odd thing as the annual booklet is highly regarded by farmers and rural people for its highly factual content regarding fairs, marts, sporting events, festivals, tides and weather predictions.
The monthly predictions are by now considered entertainment by most readers, especially those who have been keeping a close eye on the veracity of past predictions.
Suffice to say is that they got it wrong about President Michael D Higgins being forced to retire in 2014, that Tiger Woods would win the US Open, that Mayo would win the All Ireland Football title and Clare would be champion hurlers.
But they were right about riots in Brazil relating to the FIFA World Cup and that it would be a very rainy year.
So armed with that information, here’s some of the predictions for 2015.
RyanAir boss, Michael O’Leary will get even nicer – he’s already relented on bringing an extra bag, as in handbag, onto the plane and gotten rid of that sexist calendar. So who knows, he might even start serving free teas and coffees on board!
There will be an IRA scandal, another one they mean, actor Halle Berry’s marriage in jeopardy, Zsa Zsa Gabor to die (many thought she had already) and oceans will be hotting up as climate continues to be affected by the environment.
World birth rate might be falling but not in Hollywood as Oscar winner, Anne Hathaway, Paris Hilton, Rosanna Davison and Nicole Scherzinger will announce pregnancies.
Water and wine shortages will occur. Tourists will be attacked in a mall (it doesn’t say where) and George Clooney’s marriage will be in trouble. The price of farmland is on the rise and there will be a lot of currency shake-ups.
There are obvious predictions -- another celebrity will be outed as a paedophile, a whopper typhoon in Asia, a big plane story and a royal death.
North Korea, they predict will continue to be in news, Putin will show his true colours and Irish celebrity couple, BOD and Amy might move abroad.
Locally, the Aran Islands will be in the news with some drama during the year.
In Old Moore’s Almanac own publicity, they boasted of getting many predictions right last year including a health scare for Bono, the arrest of a famous comedian (Bill Cosby), another pregnancy for Princess Kate, that Scotland would vote no and that Gwyneth Paltrow’s marriage would fail.