Hi all!
I (M, 37) have been living in Ireland for 4 years give or take and building a social life have been extremely difficult. I saw various posts about people looking for activities, but everything seems to only happen in Dublin, eventually Galway, nothing out of these centers. I live in Mayo for work (Ballina). I've been looking for groups of anything and it is dead land. Only options seems to be pub life and I'm done drinking every weeks, with anyway most people here being 20 something or past 50-60.
In 4 years I got to slowly assemble a DnD group (all people from work) which I love and keep me alive, but nothing outside of this bubble.
All the others people that I see around my age seems to have kids/family and don't have time for much.
What do people do in the countryside ? Where are the active 30-something without the kids life hiding ? Even trying to create a group of people myself, not sure where to start ? (if people have experience to share about creating their own group in their small town)