Mateless and in dublin one year

LegacyUser

I have found it hard making friends in dublin, ive been living in dublin city for a year after moving from Belfast and not having much luck. Its depressing as a need yer mates to go out and have a beer with, I have a girlfriend that I love to bits and a stead enough job, is there any good places in dublin for this?

Schmowen

Jesus Christ man . A whole year and no mates yet . Ok lets start with what your interests are .
what are you into ?
Models
cars
sports
surfing
swimming

If you have an interest , any interest at all , there'll be a group that will accommodate you . Check out the socs or hobbies or sports boards on here . I'm sure you'll find some thing or someone that interests you . Chin up man . You'll get there , don't be afriad to put yourself out there .
Best of luck

Zee Deveel

I'm not sure surfing and Dublin are the greatest combination in the world.

But I'd have to agree to a point... Hobbies and sports are the best way to meet people. I moved long distance a year ago and it took me so so long to meet people and make friends, so I can very much empathise.

I had to throw myself into a sport I'd always meant to try, but never had the guts to before and slowly slowly built up relationships with the people I took classes with. Was hit and miss, and a little painful when I realised the people I'd have called mates just thought of me as an acquaintance and had no problem dropping me from their schedule.

Is there anything you have an interest in? Sport, hobby, even educationally, some adult learning classes can be good for meeting people.

Even, I must admit, I've found boards to be a good place to meet people and would count some of my best friends as boardsies. Just hang around posting in places of interest for a while and getting to know some of the regulars. Many of the more popular fora have their own regular beers, as well as the boards beers a couple of times a year.

What about your girlfriend? Is she based in Dublin? Is it within the grounds of reality to get her and her mates/their boyfriends/male mates all together for a big movie night in or something?

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get to a Boards Beers tbh.

Find one of the social forums on Boards

BGRH
The Ladies Lounge
Nocturnal

I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones I could think of straight off the top of my head.

Join in with the banter on the forums, and eventually a Beers will be arranged (the BGRH people are actually heading off to Germany in a couple of weeks, all these people who met ON THE INTERNET!!! (din-din-dinnnnnnnn)), go to said beers, make friends.

It's that easy.

Really.

Seriously, it is.

Do it.

unreggd

Does your girlfriend not have friends she can introduce you to?

Or maybe brothers, cousins etc?

Baird

In fairness i cant imagine the guy wants to say please make friends for me to his g/f

LegacyUser

Baird wrote: »

In fairness i cant imagine the guy wants to say please make friends for me to his g/f

Yea and me own crowd would be good. I have loads of mates up north but cant afford to go up every weekend plus my gf lives here! TBH ive met some people but dubliners keep to them selves, ive never had this trouble before and no offense intended but coming to the internet seems like a desperate move...but suppose im bein a bit biased. May drop along for a night.

theTinker

I would suggest using all the popular social sites such as myspace,bebo, facebook.

Throw up a decent profile and convey person. Then chat to as many people as you can, most will flake, some will stay, some you'll really like. Get to know them a bit more on MSN and then meet for a coffee. I've met 2 people off the net and both are in my life a few years. I think the ease of filtering people out online makes it a very compatible way to meet people.

Marlar

YOu could see if you can volunteer with any local groups. Always a great way to make friends and do a bit of good at the same time.

LegacyUser

Try www.maybefriends.com
Its used as a dating site but can be used to make friends. I has a big Dublin community (or at least it had)
I did and made loads of friends on it and am still in contact with them over 2 years later