Socialising/Drinking Buddies

see what you can find on www.meetup.com

Pickings are fairly slim outside Dublin. There's always the Portlaoise car shows at the Maldron.

It's a hard one OP.

You will struggle to meet strangers to socialise with, that are not complete piss heads.

Rural people in their don't 30s socialise so much, or so I observe during my travels. Not sure if this is a recent development, perhaps Netflix etc is an more favourable way to cure boredom than planning nights out.

A hobby is my advice. Something that has competition attached, ie dancing etc

Macra? 🤣🤣

Maybe they're just not interested in knowing you.

Netflix has put the kibosh on a lot of socialising. It is quite sad really

If you tried a few of those you will make friends easily enough

Sorry not fully on the topic of the tread but I actually find things the complete opposite to this post. I'm from the country and spent 10 years of my life living between Chicago, Berlin and then Australia. I've never had any issues mixing or socialising with whatever new people cross my path. Alas I met a girl from Dublin and I'm now married and living in the big smoke! It absolutely amazes me how many of my wife's friends and her friends of friends are still are in large social clicks from there school days!! Since I didn't really know anyone when moving back to Dublin, a lot of my home mates are living in different countries. I've started hanging out with my wife's friends husbands as one does in my circumstances. Its crazy these lads entire circle of friends are still their secondary school mates, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with it but I do find it bizarre. Coming from a small village in the midlands, me and most of my friends had to leave as soon as we finished school for college and then work reasons, so staying in full time contact can become hard.

Yes I get that, there's definitely an element of that in some parts of rural Ireland. I suppose I was triggered by that broad brush rural people were painted with by the poster. Although I find where I am from though sadly that it is now nearly the opposite, unless you have a decent size farm or in a family business there is not a lot for people from where I am from, I think I'm the only 1 of my school group who is actually back living in Ireland, never mind back home! Also I'm now well aware that I'm gone completely off trend on this topic.... 🙈

Local mart can be great crack,

Sounds like someone needs to bite the bullet and start a meetup group...

Netflix is a completely silly recommendation.

Sure ya'd need electricity for that. Never mind the internet or risking new-fangled fancy computer technology bringing the devil into the house.