looking for push hands practice partner in dun laughaire

You should elaborate on what you mean by push hands (tui shou), in the wudang style I practice there are formal drill tui shou methods which are very valuable, basically reducing to elements of combat so for example in "nine palace" sweeps can be perfected to work naturally with stepping in or out of range, "seven stars" which basically works on range and angle aswell as the similarity of uppercuts and diversions / locks. then there is free "tui shou", sometimes the stances are kept to work on upper body control and rooting, otherwise it is like stand up wrestling.
What I'm saying is I would imagine if the general martial artist had an idea of what "push hands" was they might be more interested? Certainly if its the free style stuff? I know Bagua has Rou shou, which involved strikes too. As for the more drill like stuff, well beyond IMA stylists I dont think many would understand the point?
Excellent idea though to practice during lunch time, smacl and myself used to do that in Patricks Cathederal park many moons ago, time well spent!

The videos you posted of erle are interesting and make a fair few points, though perhaps over analysed?
Like it's handy to have your students know the relationship between the four phases and the related palm shape, simply for rapid correction, however I think it a bit restrictive to say this is right an that is wrong? Which he seems to suggest?
At first when learning, certainly an orthodox method should be followed bit not made gospel, the palms change not to ward off or roll back a corresponding force, but really you use your forearms etc. to add a little pressure (the famous peng) so it can lead the opponent, ie you could lift, uproot redirect but also on the "yin" side of things purposely let it collapse adding "an" to throw set up sweeps etc. The forearms twist as adhering to your opponents arms they act as gear cogs turning his, setting up throws locks etc.
If you practice push hands mindlessly repeating movement you get so far, in Wudang TCC there are 12 drills each also has 4-8 typical applications associated with them, like in nine palace there are 4 sweeps, three locks, 2 throws, elbow and shoulder strikes involved, so basically it's stripped down combat movement, and allows one to play with structure and defence skills setting up an opponent as although the techniques are limited to reflect the stepping method, they are plentiful enough to be a surprise, a nice way of improving skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2uYtTlz1E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It seems like you are interested in exploring various other styles ph methods, so I wouldn't pass up on the YMAA school if you are out that way, every style has different methods all with their own preferences and focus. On Wudang I learned that the mountain was a martial artists Mecca, not a temple-school, so fair play, training as much as you can with others and their points of view / truths is the way to improve skills! In France they hold an event each year for a week where people can arrive and ph together exchanging skills, wonder if there would be the interest over here?

Personally I'd be interested in having a go at bg and xi methods always good to gather another point of view.

I assume yin Bagua has similar drills, any vids of what you do?