en-year-old Robert McGoldrick doesn't have a crystal ball. But for him, imagining how Ireland will be at the close of the next decade is a no-brainer. "By 2020, there'll be robots in my house, cleaning, tidying and taking orders" he says. "They'll be thin, and small as a child,

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say: "Not the perfect place to hold a close examination of the Taoiseach's period as finance minister." MICHAEL WALSH MALLOW, CO CORK • YOUR report on the call to close 12,000 hotel guest rooms because there is no demand for them (Irish Independent, December 29) is interesting.

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