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Dating in Donegal

  • 24-10-2009 6:09pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭


    I'm a newly single 23 year old lady and I want to get myself out and about again and start to meet some nice young fellas. I just want to know the best places around Letterkenny to meet some nice Donegal men. Anytime I'm out around Letterkenny, I never seem to get as much as a sniff!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Deer Hunter DL


    cavern , voodoo, sister saras, i should think you`d get a sniff about there ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    The Pulse, Milan, The Grill...



    ...or if you're stuck try The Hideout.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna



    ...or if you're stuck try The Hideout.

    I doubt she's that stuck;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Senna wrote: »
    I doubt she's that stuck;)

    Must try it out:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    You might find a fiddle in the Cottage Bar.

    The Wolfe Tone - Depending on your nationality.
    The Drum Bar - If you're local.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭inode


    go to the grill tonight. it will be packed. you'll have no bother pulling there im sure. its been quite good there for me :p:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭irish1967


    A launderette can be good

    The drink section in Dunnes.

    Any ATM queue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    Think I'll stay local tonight, plenty of toothless old men to take my fancy! Think Donegal men are a bit shy compared to what you get in Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Those wee 16 and 17 yr old aint feicing shy!!!
    Though seems they do get shy as they get older :confused: Odd.

    Forget about the discos. Go out good and early and hit the pubs and pick up a half sober male then :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    irish1967 wrote: »
    A launderette can be good

    The drink section in Dunnes.

    Any ATM queue.

    :eek:

    Fair play to you!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Forget about the discos. Go out good and early and hit the pubs and pick up a half sober male then :p

    Ha!!!

    A half sober male in Donegal!Everybody gets drunk before they go out now remember!You would have to meet them in their house to get them sober!:p

    My theory,if you got out looking for "love" you wont get it, your only successful when you got out for the craic. Thats for me anyway,mind you I could be doing it all wrong:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    What about Blakes Bar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    I'm not looking for love or a knight in shining armour on a white horse or a sniff of someone's ATM card (I'm an independent woman don't y'know!). I just want to be young and have a bit of fun! Maybe I'll try Blake's Bar, have never been in there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Ha!!!

    A half sober male in Donegal!Everybody gets drunk before they go out now remember!You would have to meet them in their house to get them sober!:p

    My theory,if you got out looking for "love" you wont get it, your only successful when you got out for the craic. Thats for me anyway,mind you I could be doing it all wrong:p


    Students get drunk before the go out! Regular alcoholics throw all their hard earned dole into their fav pub :p
    Anyway nobody should be looking for love at this stage in life!
    TRAVEL.
    Talk to everyone in yer course/work and ones outside of it! They will all end up scattered all over the world and ye will then be able to go on holidays and stay with them.:D Trust me...it's great!:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭digital pimp


    personally i think pubs and clubs are the worst places to look for a partner.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    personally i think pubs and clubs are the worst places to look for a partner.

    I wouldn't rule it out though. I went out with a lovely person for 5 years, having met him in a nightclub. I think it kinda depends on the pub and club. I know a lot of people meet their partners through work but I don't see that happening anytime soon! Where would you recommend?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭digital pimp


    friends of friends usually, or internet dating sites
    plentyoffish.com is really good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Never let actual friends set you up with people...as they normally pick ones THEY would like and the person turns out to be not the type you would go for!
    They do say internet dating is fun....but I meet enough actual psychos in real life...so with the internet I'd be a bit wary......then again...
    Maybe that's where all the sane people are now...the internet!!:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭digital pimp


    well, i meant people you meet through your friends,
    like at a party, birthdays, or youknow oxegen or something lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    Toni Tuddle, you should write a book titled, 'Toni Tuddle's rules to Dating!'. I'm sure it would be a best seller. See, that's the thing when I was going out with someone, everyone was single. Now, everyone has partners and I'm single. I need some single friends! Plus, I'm shy and would never approach a man!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Deer Hunter DL


    post a pic of your self i`m sure there is loads of 20 somethings on here would take you out on a date ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    post a pic of your self i`m sure there is loads of 20 somethings on here would take you out on a date ;)

    You can see my picture in today's Sun newspaper, it's on page 3! Anyway, it's not about looks, it's about personality or something!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    well, i meant people you meet through your friends,
    like at a party, birthdays, or youknow oxegen or something lol


    Ahhhh:D
    Kinda like "here Toni this is digital pimp chat to him for a minute while I nip off to the loo"
    :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Toni Tuddle, you should write a book titled, 'Toni Tuddle's rules to Dating!'. I'm sure it would be a best seller. See, that's the thing when I was going out with someone, everyone was single. Now, everyone has partners and I'm single. I need some single friends! Plus, I'm shy and would never approach a man!

    Thanks!! hehe:D
    But noboy listens to me advice even though it's right alot of the time cause I'm cool like --->:cool::P
    My two best friends are both in relationships and I'm the single one...which I don't mind at all until I'm out with them and they are all over each other and I'm sitting like a great big tool!:(

    Are you currently working in an environment where there are loads of people? Is it a new job?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Thanks!! hehe:D
    But noboy listens to me advice even though it's right alot of the time cause I'm cool like --->:cool::P
    My two best friends are both in relationships and I'm the single one...which I don't mind at all until I'm out with them and they are all over each other and I'm sitting like a great big tool!:(

    Are you currently working in an environment where there are loads of people? Is it a new job?

    Yeah join the club! As I say to my sister when I'm out, 'I try to look single'! That ain't hard, like as you say when everyone is slobbering over each other! Nah, I work in a very female dominated job, where all the women have their 5 point plans which involves marriage and babies (zzzzzz).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Yeah join the club! As I say to my sister when I'm out, 'I try to look single'! That ain't hard, like as you say when everyone is slobbering over each other! Nah, I work in a very female dominated job, where all the women have their 5 point plans which involves marriage and babies (zzzzzz).
    • Well I suggest you definitely don't pop out with them(unless you really want an alcoholic beverage) or let them set you up with people.
    • Maybe get friendly with their sisters/brothers or other female/male friends outside of work(they may all want 5 point plans but I doubt all their friends do)....(do this by having drinks,music and chips n dips at your flat and inviting work mates and their friends!)
    • Try this for few weeks-every friday afternoon/evening pop into a pub you like and have a few drinks(up at the bar not sitting down on a couch as people will think you are waiting for someone and ignore you).
    • You end up becoming pally with the bar staff and possible regulars too.More people you talk to leads to more friends leads to more chances of having romantic encounters! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    • Well I suggest you definitely don't pop out with them(unless you really want an alcoholic beverage) or let them set you up with people.
    • Maybe get friendly with their sisters/brothers or other female/male friends outside of work(they may all want 5 point plans but I doubt all their friends do)....(do this by having drinks,music and chips n dips at your flat and inviting work mates and their friends!)
    • Try this for few weeks-every friday afternoon/evening pop into a pub you like and have a few drinks(up at the bar not sitting down on a couch as people will think you are waiting for someone and ignore you).
    • You end up becoming pally with the bar staff and possible regulars too.More people you talk to leads to more friends leads to more chances of having romantic encounters! :D

    Alternatively, I'll just wear a 'I'm desperate' badge. Must dust it off, it worked in the past!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Alternatively, I'll just wear a 'I'm desperate' badge. Must dust it off, it worked in the past!


    God save ye luv!!
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Deer Hunter DL


    If Nero`s was still open in donegal town you`d be sorted , ah those were the days fake i.d`s and foam partys :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    I suppose if I was a man, I'd be intimidated by my beauty and wit too!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭digital pimp


    ToniTuddle wrote: »
    Ahhhh:D
    Kinda like "here Toni this is digital pimp chat to him for a minute while I nip off to the loo"
    :P


    something like that :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭markmcg


    You can see my picture in today's Sun newspaper, it's on page 3! Anyway, it's not about looks, it's about personality or something!

    Yeah its all about personality and what your feelings are from the inside towards someone. looks shouldn't matter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭digital pimp


    markmcg wrote: »
    Yeah its all about personality and what your feelings are from the inside towards someone. looks shouldn't matter.

    exactly why a person you have hooked up with inside a club never gets a second date, has to be more than looks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    exactly why a person you have hooked up with inside a club never gets a second date, has to be more than looks.

    Of course, personality is the most important thing but there has to be a physical attraction there too. Sometimes I just doubt that I'll ever meet someone again who has a good balance between the two.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭Larrson


    Of course, personality is the most important thing but there has to be a physical attraction there too. Sometimes I just doubt that I'll ever meet someone again who has a good balance between the two.
    OMD, you are only 23, believe me you don't need to be looking for a man at your age, you should out enjoying yourself, go traveling , do whatever you want, because if you don't do it now you never will, and you dot not need a man to do that, you have the best 10 years of your life to come so go and enjoy it, if you go looking for love you won't get it, it always come to you when you least expect, and when your are not looking for it, so for goodness sake enjoy your freedom you will be tied down soon enough?:confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 Arion24


    Who goes to find a date in the Wolfe Tone except bald Celtic supporters who like to get arrested before lunchtime everyday.
    Wolfe Tone is not a great place for a lady to be going looking to meet someone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Arion24 wrote: »
    Who goes to find a date in the Wolfe Tone except bald Celtic supporters who like to get arrested before lunchtime everyday.
    Wolfe Tone is not a great place for a lady to be going looking to meet someone.

    Ahhh now ease up on the Wolfe Tone mighty wee spot!:)

    When you are going to pubs/clubs etc there are plenty chances of dates, but if you don't go to them it is a bit difficult finding ones.
    Think it's been hardwired into our brains that pubs/clubs produce relationships. People don't bother trying outside of them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,548 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Arion24 wrote: »
    Who goes to find a date in the Wolfe Tone except bald Celtic supporters who like to get arrested before lunchtime everyday.
    Wolfe Tone is not a great place for a lady to be going looking to meet someone.
    That comment is not acceptable in a public forum. Please keep your comments toned down and stay on topic as we are not discussing the clientèle of a particular establishment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭Bob Z


    muffler wrote: »
    That comment is not acceptable in a public forum. Please keep your comments toned down and stay on topic as we are not discussing the clientèle of a particular establishment.

    Don't tell me your a bald Celtic supporter


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ContraVibe


    I like McGinleys, decent crowd, nice music and nice enough atmosphere.
    I agree that Wolfe Tone is not the best place to go. It depends what night you go out in LK as well. Some nights are better than others.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭digital pimp


    where and when is crucial depending on who you are, and who you go for lol
    Milan on Wednesday is no longer an option for me lol
    :(:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭AidySevenfold


    might be heading out to LK this weekend, if i am sure i'll post on here and u can go there :P
    Grill on a sundays a good spot, Tonic isn;t bad either


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    might be heading out to LK this weekend, if i am sure i'll post on here and u can go there :P
    Grill on a sundays a good spot, Tonic isn;t bad either

    Profile and vital statistics please!! Only joking. I'm back in Dublin now so I'm turning my back on Donegal men for the time being!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Johnny Giles


    The Glencar Inn
    The Wolfe Tone

    They're probably ones to avoid.


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