It's generally excellent, though a lot of the time it talks about the more distant future - "decades". I liked the bit where Simmons is asked something like "how long to peak oil?" and replies "we might be looking at the past tense". It covers a lot of issues e.g. responses - growing more food in gardens, using little electric cars to get to bus and train depots.

One advantage Ireland has is that it's not that long since most people didn't have cars and lived very locally, also they tend to be a very adaptable people, so could go back to that way again without the sort of trauma you would see in USA (or even UK).