the next evolutionary step for "your local pub". "YOUR LOCAL HUB". what exactly is that ? it is the amalgamation of all those needs and wants in any village or town under one roof. a place where people can stay connected offline and online. the local pub has taken a massive hit in the last 6 years, especially in rural areas, and as a result, more and more of them have closed and as a consequence, done a lot of serious damage to the social fabric of irish society. the Local Hub can restore all of that and more. it can be a synthesis of all that is necessary and wanted in terms of social and economic functions in any given community. local hubs would be located all over the island of ireland, literally thousands and thousands of them ; a physical and digital network, all enabled and connected by the power of the internet. there would be no such thing as having no job as there would always be a job down in your local hub ; paid, subsidised, or voluntary. and while you're down there, you c More...

The CENTENARY IRELAND TRUST ACT 2010 will rejuvenate IRELAND NATION PROSPERITY TOWARDS 2016. ( The roots of this IDEA is to replicate the success of The Encouragement of External investment Act 1958 founded by Mr Sean Lemass and " The Four Horsemen ", namely Ken Whitaker, Padraic O' hUiginn, Charlie Murray, Louden Ryan. Dr. Michael will have worked with some of them.) " The Key was change from despondency to confidence - progress rate increased from 1% to 4% " Ken Whitaker

Introduce a Compulsory Community Service year (CCS Year) for school leavers. Instead of CAO form completion in February of the school leaving year, students complete a Compulsory Community Service form (See Appendix 1) with the help of the school’s Guidance Counsellor. Early school leavers and those in alternative placements can complete the form under the guidance of Education Welfare Officers, Youthreach tutors and other professionals working with early school leavers. The overriding principle is that the young person gives back to their community. Work experience in an area of interest may be a secondary outcome but it is not the focus of the CCS programme. Each individual will receive a payment equivalent to the current social welfare allowance for young adults. This initiative will: • Promote community spirit at a key time in a young person’s life. • Allow a rapid response to changing local and national social and economic needs. • Provide a ready made young and eage More...

We have some of the finest renewable energy & precipitation sources in the world. We also have some of the mot beautiful scenery in the world. However most of these resorces remain unharvested & when we eventually do start generating from renewable sources our infrastructure is not good enough to make power export a viable option. We could feasably export water but at times we can't even cope with our own water needs. Our beautiful scenery can often be only seen safely by car as we have no footpaths or cycle lanes and the scenery is scared by the proliferation of telephone & electric cables on telegraph poles. We also have a massive human resourse out of work in the construction industry. The Utilities Interlink is proposed to provide a realistic and achievable system to link utilities to all our towns and cities while providing cycle lanes & footpaths. At the moment all our utilities follow there own tracks around the country. However all centres of population are linked More...

We have some of the finest renewable energy & precipitation sources in the world. We also have some of the mot beautiful scenery in the world. However most of these resorces remain unharvested & when we eventually do start generating from renewable sources our infrastructure is not good enough to make power export a viable option. We could feasably export water but at times we can't even cope with our own water needs. Our beautiful scenery can often be only seen safely by car as we have no footpaths or cycle lanes and the scenery is scared by the proliferation of telephone & electric cables on telegraph poles. We also have a massive human resourse out of work in the construction industry. The Utilities Interlink is proposed to provide a realistic and achievable system to link utilities to all our towns and cities while providing cycle lanes & footpaths. At the moment all our utilities follow there own tracks around the country. However all centres of population are linked More...

Been There Done That. Within each Community where we live and/or work there are assets: skills, hobbies, businesses, spare time, professionals, materials,experience, goodwill, energy, buildings, offices,skills, equipment ,ideas, vision, hobbies which we do not know about and are not recorded. There are also needs: concerns, isolation, lack of resources, inexperience, too much time, lack of skills, training needs which are not known about and are not recorded. My idea would be to record these two groups from people either from working/living community(or both in an area), store them in database unique to that community and match the assets with the needs either web based on virtual database or in an office in the community

Within each Community where we live and/or work there are assets: skills, hobbies, businesses, spare time, professionals, materials,experience, goodwill, energy, buildings, offices,skills, equipment ,ideas, vision, hobbies which we do not know about and are not recorded. There are also needs: concerns, isolation, lack of resources, inexperience, too much time, lack of skills, training needs which are not known about and are not recorded. My idea would be to record these two groups from people either from working/living community(or both in an area), store them in database unique to that community and match the assets with the needs either web based on virtual database or in an office in the community.

Re-set the country to reflect Ireland as it is today The administrative structure that we have operating within Ireland today evolved during our Celtic Tiger years. With the basis of what we regarded as our growth now well and truly gone the old ways and old ideas will not get us out of the mess we find ourselves in today. We have spent enough time apportioning blame. The anger, insecurity and fear we hear in the voice of the people of our country confirm this, it is now time to look at the general structure and administration of our country and re-set it to reflect the Ireland of today. Make it new - the whole emphases will be on a fresh new administrative system that will reflect the size, population and economy of today. No looking back - an administration that will represent us NOW! Every company in Ireland has had to do this over the last two or three years, some companies did it successfully and are still operating - others have not - it seemed easier for them to More...

This project is simple and fun and is intended to generate interest in Ireland abroad while at the same time generating some funding to employ people to become ‘Community Trainers’ on a variety of different topics. The idea is similar to the recent popular and well advertised competitions held for dream jobs on exotic paradise islands. Since we can’t offer the weather what we could offer is...... the honorary position of Ard Rí na Éire (Hi King of Ireland) The principal is very simple we sell a minimum of 5,000,000 €5 tickets (hopefully more) at home and over the internet with the top prize being €1,000,000 and a castle in Ireland for 1 year. Possible additional add on’s such as a fancy car, use of a helicopter, clothes etc can also be arranged through sponsorship along with the possibility of further revenue for all involved through some kind of TV real life documentary over the year. The winner basically brings their family to Ireland for the year and are treated like More...

Your country your call During the Celtic Tiger years Ireland was among the richest countries in the world. What exactly did that mean? Did you as an individual feel richer? more fulfilled? Happier? It is after all a fundamental objective of the economy to create material wealth. Or, do you think we might have lost the run ourselves, or may even lost a sense of ourselves. In all the noble searching for ideas to stimulate economic growth and employment there is an even more fundamental point that appears to have been missed. That point is a sense of community, a sense of who we are, and where we have come from, and indeed, where we as a society, want to go. It is about decency, morality, fairness, virtues all to sadly swept aside during the Celtic Tiger years. It is about how we as individuals can play a part in achieving our aspirations and dreams. Ultimately, it is about providing hope. Without engendering such ideals into our society we would have learned nothing from the excesse More...