This new Dublin

Just listening to an economist talking about how Ireland has changed. Several interesting insights. One was that there are more Mercedes in Dublin than there are in Munich. They are made in Munich. Good stuff, eh? There's a whole new snobbery happening. I think I have to read his book; "The Popes Children". It's about people that are between 25 and 34 now and how they behave. There's an explosion in people sending their children to Gaelscoils. These are schools that teach all subjects through Irish. We pretty much ALL hated learning Irish in school. It's become an aspirational way of differentiating your children. This is also a manifested in all the different and wierd names that people are giving thier children. A girl I know is aunty to Oscar (not bad), Woody (toy story?), and Murphy. That's right, Murphy as a first name. He also is talking about the proliferation of Decks in Ireland. The word did not exist when I lived here, except referring to what's on a boat. Barbequing has become huge. As inexperienced grillers, samonella has also become huge. Interesting times. I'm glad to be back to watch it.