2026 Old Moore's Almanac predicts robot love, housing, smarthphones and lots more

Old Moore’s Almanac, a Christmas stocking filler since its inception, is most famous for its predictions of future events – both Irish and global.

Old Moore’s Almanac will be 262 years old in 2026. It is one of the oldest almanacs in the world. Some editions over 250 years old still sit in the Long Room Library in Trinity College Dublin, next to the Bibles!

Its editor Nicole Buckler, claims these predictions get domestic and international news coverage for their accuracy. For example, they claim that before it happened, Old Moore said that Kate Middleton was pregnant before it was announced and that the baby’s name would be Charlotte.

In previous years, Ms Buckler says Old Moore predicted that Kanye would have mental health problems and that Trump would run for president again. The rise of Bitcoin was predicted over 10 years ago while the pandemic was forecast a year before it happened.

Its editor claims that in 2023, a “submarine drama”  was predicted - there was, the Titan submersible.  In 2024, the predictions said that Biden would step down before the election, Trump would suffer assassination attempts, and the USA would swing conservative with its voting preferences. Ms Buckler also predicted that many European countries would swing conservative.

The Almanac also said that there would be a space drama and some astronauts would get stuck in space.

Here are the big predictions for 2026:

• Ireland will have huge drama at the Eurovision
• Assassination warning around Starmer.
• Irish immigration debate still rages in Ireland, with a new political party forming.
• Dublin housing market gets worse.
• Germany’s political situation is wild in 2026, with assassination attempts, cheating scandals and controversy.
• Avalanche cluster.
• New replacement for the Big Bang theory.
• Mini ice age pre-conditions are met.
• ‘Wokeness’ fall out of fashion.
• Cruise ship drama.
• Movies, commercials and video games will be made with AI. No more movie studios.
• Financial incentives for babies all over the world.
• Previously tax-free zones in the Middle East start charging low amounts of tax.
• Free phone and WiFi offered with no bills.
• Biden in the news for non-political reasons, it’s the final performance.
• Fyre festival remake.
• Modern feminism out, new kind of feminism is in.
• Reproductive problems in young people.
• Cloud seeding scandal.
• Mark Zuckerberg marriage peril.
• Robot romance stories.

2026 will be a fairly boring year, known for being quiet with not a lot of news!

So what did the soothsayer get right in 2025?

• The world would see a religious revival. And with the rise and assassination of Charlie Kirk, religiosity across the world went up, globally.
• Return to family values. As especially younger people search for meaning, family values have been a big part of social trends in 2025.
• A new Pope. Catholics bid adieu to Pope Francis, and welcomed Pope Leo XIV.
• UK and Ireland would see internal conflict over immigration. It was a year of large protests and immigration reform discussions in both Ireland and the UK.
• Passenger train drama in Europe: A disturbing stabbing incident on a UK train made global news.
• Alternative parties in Europe come to the fore: The rise of Reform UK and the AFD in Germany displayed the changing politics of Europe.
• More than one plane crash: Multiple passenger plane crashes happened, including the tragic Air India flight with only one survivor.
• Volcano in Japan fires up: Flights were cancelled after a trio of volcanic eruptions spewed ash 2.73 miles into the air at Sakurajima.
• In Ireland, a missing person case gets revisited: Alice Cairns passed away on November 11. She was the mother of Philip, who was 13 years old when he went missing on October 23, 1986, on his way back to his school in Rathfarnham, Dublin. His schoolbag was found in a nearby laneway six days later.
• Robots in our houses: Household humanoid adoption began, with preorders for models like NEO being driven by aging populations.
• Bitcoin joins federal reserves: The U.S. established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve via executive order in March, holding seized BTC as a national asset alongside a Digital Asset Stockpile.
• After the US election, everyone finds out just how cooked the books are: The DOGE drama, investigating fraud and wasteful spending, spent a lot of time at the top of our news feeds.
• Leonardo DiCaprio has a legal nightmare: In July 2025, DiCaprio was sued by Global Weather Productions for copyright infringement after allegedly posting their video on Instagram without permission.
• Clintons face legal issues: Bill and Hillary Clinton were subpoenaed in August 2025 for a congressional probe into Jeffrey Epstein connections.
• Harry tries to rebuild bridges with his father, and rejoin the fold. It’s met with a frosty response: Harry pursued reconciliation. However, Prince William's "tough view" on past "betrayals" kept responses frosty.

There is more information about its fascinating Irish history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Moore%27s_Almanac

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