Can you help?

LegacyUser

Hi all,
I'm 24 and am moving for a new job (to Galway). I've only lived outside Dublin for months at a time before and I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on how to meet people & make friends. I'm really excited about the new job and the move but the people I'll be working with don't really go out so, alternatives would be useful. Also. I'm recently single and the idea of sitting in a bar by myself (apart from looking a little odd, even in 2004) isn't appealing...


Any advice welcomed!
Thanks
:-)

Beruthiel

there are a rather large number of boardsie people from Galway, a great bunch of people!
keep an eye on the Events Forum on this board for up and coming pissups

Zulu

Galway rocks - I'm always looking for a way to get back down there. You'll have no problems, the people are sound.

Asok

a/s/l?

Beruthiel

Originally posted by Asok
a/s/l?

this is the only person in galway that you should avoid like the plague...

Tommy Vercetti

Galway's great, you will meet lots of people in no time at all. Even if you go to a pub alone, you won't be on your own for long.

leeroybrown

Galway is a great place to socialise and meet people. I hat being stuck up here in the pale.

Do you have any hobbies/interests that would allow you to join a club of some kind?

Hopefully, you'll find that some of your new co-workers will socialise in town. It would give you a chance to meet some new people.

Sarky

My recommendation to you: Find the Sin messageboard. In conjunction with this board, you'll have trouble finding the work with all the pub meetups and whatnot. And yes, I am a terribly sad and lonely internet recluse, thanks for asking.:)

Sleepy

Depending on the company you start with you should at least be able to make friends there. As Beruthiel said, there's a load of us on Boards.ie from Galway, although some of us have had to move East to find work. Personally I'd do anything to get a decent job back home but there just doesn't seem to be anything going in the IT industry down there (or at least anything I'm qualified to do - note to any prospective employers, I have no problem in working a position for which I'm dangerously unqualified )

drusilla

Originally posted by Sarky
My recommendation to you: Find the Sin messageboard. In conjunction with this board, you'll have trouble finding the work with all the pub meetups and whatnot. And yes, I am a terribly sad and lonely internet recluse, thanks for asking.:)

Yes Yes, join Sin, and you'll be imersed in galweigan-ness! You'll love it down here, there are a million and one ways of making friends (esp if you are musical or artsy), the saturday market alone is one way!
As for Sarky, this 'lonely internet recluse' has a terrible habit of getting his friends ridiculously drunk on cloudy german beer, and everyone on sin (including me) will welcome you with outstretched sarcasm.

But it's unfortunately fallen over atm, it'll be back soon.;)

po0k

You'll make friends in day-to-day life.

Don't rely on just the net to meet people.

Being in Galway during the summer gives you a very good chance of meeting people from around the world, all on your doorstep.

...Looking for a place to crash.

Asok

Originally posted by Beruthiel
this is the only person in galway that you should avoid like the plague...

That really hurts me anna.

As Skypak said dont rely on the net especially a board inhabited with more dross than a dross sandwich such as sin :P tek it.

You will make friends in work and can expand your social circle from there if all else fails move in with me and syxpak and we will have you settled in no time.

Sarky

Originally posted by SyxPak
You'll make friends in day-to-day life.

Don't rely on just the net to meet people.

Pfft, you used to be hardcore.

Zoton

Woohoo! moving back to galway in september:D

Sarky

Originally posted by Zoton
Woohoo! moving back to galway in september:D

I demand pintage!

We can invite Mr. Moving Advice too. Problems solved.

Zoton

Erdinger again is it mr sarky?

Sarky

And original poster, if you're desperate enough, try joining the local gaming group in Galway. You'll be screaming about tinfoil axes and celestial paragon fiendish half dragon fighter/mages along with the rest of us in no time.

Sleepy

Ye're a shower of cnuts. Making me homesick like this.

Miguel_Sanchez

If you're into your music then there's several nights that you should attend around Galway that you almost certainly meet new people at.

Boogaloo - on in the Black Box on 31st July. Great night out and it's almost impossible not to be invited to a party while you're there.

Strange Brew in the Warwick Hotel - Every Thursday night. But this only really gets busy when the colleges are back.

110th Street - Every second Saturday in the GPO. More great tunes etc. won't be on this Saturday but will be back there on the 7th August.

Just don't go to CP's (Central Park) nightclub. If you do then you've gone over to the Dark Side.

cavanman

I suggest that when you move to Galway you stay in a hostel to begin with. People staying in hostels tend to be in their early twenties and very open to making new friends as they are strangers to the area as well. Could be a great way to find people to rent a house or flat with.

The_Conductor

Keep in mind Galway, as a city, is more or less built to cater for the university. There are more university students than there are natives in official full time abode in the city. Some haunts are better than others. There are loads of haunts though- to cater for virtually every taste. Try the GPO- you'll not find too many first year college students there, and can relax in similar company. Galway is the one city in the country where regardless of who you are, who you know, or where you are coming from- you can be gauranteed a brilliant social life.

Shane

Robbo

Originally posted by smccarrick
Try the GPO- you'll not find too many first year college students there, and can relax in similar company. Galway is the one city in the country where regardless of who you are, who you know, or where you are coming from- you can be gauranteed a brilliant social life.

Shane

What GPO do you go to? The place, during college time, is wedged with 1st and 2nd years, with the odd smattering of schoolkids.

The_Conductor

Bah- downhill is it?
Well there are a few nice places just off Cladagh bridge.

Robbo

Originally posted by smccarrick
Bah- downhill is it?
Well there are a few nice places just off Cladagh bridge.

GPO's been that way ever since I started going there as a 15 year old, a good 6 years ago

The_Conductor

Think I'm showing my age- I'm 10 years older...

LegacyUser

My friend Frankie is moving to Galway this weekend. He is a very nice guy but a bit awkward in public, a bit like a touch of the tourets syndrome. Anyway he'll be in Maxwell McNamara's restaurant on Saturday night.

You'll recognise him by the tumbler of straight gin in front of him and by his look of a man on way to the gallows.