CLODAGH FINN: What I’d put in a time capsule to encapsulate our age

Selfie sticks, a breathalyser test and a copy of the Eighth Amendment are among the items that would help the people of the future understand today’s society, writes Clodagh Finn.

WHAT a pity that President Michael D Higgins didn’t announce free ice creams for all the children in Dún Laoghaire in south county Dublin before he had planted a time capsule to commemorate the harbour’s bicentenary this week.

That way, his gesture might have been captured for posterity. A picture of a smiling child with a well-placed fleck of a Teddy’s 99 on the nose would have been a wonderful image to send off into the future.