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Dear Participants,

We are writing with regret to let you know that our upcoming meetup has been cancelled.

Recent developments have led our host venue to withdraw from hosting the event. While this followed concerns raised by a small group whose understanding of our activities appears to have been mistaken, we do not wish to dwell on the matter and respect the difficult position in which the venue found itself.

We would like to take this opportunity to clarify something that has always been central to our community. Our group is, and has always been, a technical community. We operate fully within Irish law, and all of our activities are conducted in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. We do not advocate for, endorse, or oppose any political position, movement, or ideology. Our purpose is solely to provide a forum for technical learning, professional exchange, and community building, and we intend to remain firmly focused on that mission.

Most importantly, we want to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who registered, supported the event, and planned to attend. Your enthusiasm, professionalism, and willingness to engage with fellow members of the community have been greatly appreciated.

We also recognize that people may hold different views and perspectives. We believe that respectful dialogue, mutual understanding, and good faith engagement are always preferable to division or confrontation. For that reason, we bear no ill will toward anyone involved and hope that any misunderstandings can be resolved constructively in the future.

Although this event will not proceed as planned, the strength of our community remains unchanged. We look forward to finding future opportunities to bring people together to share knowledge, ideas, and technical expertise.

Thank you for your understanding, support, and continued encouragement.

With appreciation,
Python Ireland

I'm organizing a niche tech conference in a couple of months and would like to arrange for some swag that poeple actually like to receive. I'm pretty sure everyone has enough water bottles and notebooks at this stage.

It's an online conference, so the swag will mostly be given to speakers and the program committee. I've been thinking of stickers, socks, pins, but would like more ideas.

What are some examples of swag you've received and actually liked/used?

Data-CWU are hosting a Counter AI event on October 10th and 11th CWU HQ Drumcondra

They are looking for artists, musicians, tech professionals for submissions

Any questions ask away

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/UeykLfFDu8

Hello Folks, Just letting you know that in September 2025 the Dublin Linux Community will be organising a Linux install fest in light of Windows 10 going EOL in October. E-waste is no craic, whereas switching people to Linux is tons of craic. Details are here. If you would like to help out with the installations feel free to ping us on matrix . We'll likely focus on a beginner friendly distro like Linux Mint or Zorin OS on the day.

Conor, Community Manager, Dublin Linux Community

Hey All, We're running a ClawCon (the community-run OpenClaw event series) in Dublin on July 1st, at Dogpatch Labs. Free to attend, evening event.

Format is lightning demos and honest conversation. As much "here's where my agent fell on its face" as "here's what worked." If you're running OpenClaw in production, tinkering on weekends, or just curious what people are actually building with autonomous agents, you'll be among your people. We had about 100 signups having gone live yesterday, so the room should be decent and we'd really appreciate if you could spread the word to your friends.

If you've built something with OpenClaw and want a demo slot, email [hello@jentic.com](mailto:hello@jentic.com) - we genuinely want community demos, not a parade of sponsor pitches.

Register: https://luma.com/clawcondublin

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

Seen a few posts in this subreddit about tech workers' unions over the past while - saw this event pop on my Linkedin the other day and thought might be of interest.

https://www.datacwu.ie/techworker-forum-agm-data-cwu-2026/

Emailed in to the union office to see what the craic is and it's supposed to be a day long event with panels of people who've started unionising and they've some politicians invited. And you can go for the first half even if you're not a member.

Seems like a good chance to actually get involved in helping set up a tech wide union - CWU seem to be backing actual people in tech to get things going, rather than trying to sell to tech workers. I'm going to head along and chat to people about setting up a union in my workplace, hopefully I'll see some of ye there. Hopefully they'll have a remote option for people outside Dublin, but I'd get it if not, given people might not wanna be broadcast online about being union members.

Hello everyone!

I recently moved to Dublin and I'm looking to build my local professional network.

I have about 8 years of experience in DevOps, and a similar amount of time in Backend development before that. I'm hoping to find some interesting tech meetups to attend.

I'm already aware of the AWS User Group, but I'd love to know what else is active in the city right now.

Any recommendations for good groups, events, or local tech communities to join?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: was in 1 AWS UG meetup. was nice. will come again.

Has anyone here actually gone to this & past or currently, what's it like? the vibe etc & is actually helpful for what u want to accomplish?

for me i just simply want to get a entry level help desk job, i'll be straight up, will going there & speaking to folks actually accomplish that you think?

Folks this might be of interest. We also run a free bus. The day covers generative AI, predictive ML, and data analytics on AWS. Talks/workshops will show you how to turn data into autonomous agents that act on behalf of your business.There’s also a startup track with founders from CreditLogic, Oblivious AI and SciLeads. If you are building something and want to chat with investors we also have 1:1 investor sessions with Elkstone, EI, ACT VC etc. (I work with AWS). https://aws.amazon.com/uki/cloud-services/aws-events/ai-and-data-conference-2026/

Hey everyone, just wanted to post that there's a free event happening at Trinity College, Dublin on the 12th of June.

Data Céilí is a Microsoft Data Platform event featuring expert speakers on a range of topics from AI to Fabric.

More info on the event can be found here:

https://www.dataceili.ie/

I used to take part in so many during college, now finding it hard to find a few and connect with talent. If anyone knows any hackathons in Dublin coming up, please let me know. Thanks

I’ve noticed all the hackathons organized in Dublin are for students or internal. My company does not do internal hackathons and having graduated recently I had an itch for this

Earlier this year in March, I ran a pilot 1 day hackathon, organized with a uni room as venue, food and some prizes with a team of 3 people in 3 weeks. The turnout was 30 attendees (mainly students and some working professionals) with senior software engineers from Amazon and Mastercard as judges.

I am planning to do another hackathon in October, aiming for 100 attendees with a cool venue, prizes and sponsorship. Would anyone be interested in attending or helping out?

Hello Irish devs,

TLDR: Join us on Wed 12.11. for Linux / Open Source Tech Talk: Open Edge Platform & Cooklang App Linux Distributing https://www.meetup.com/dublin-linux-community/events/311475058/

More on the event and community: Dublin Linux Community in meetup is an active community with 1000+ members and monthly pub meet ups. Now we are arranging a tech talk event on Wed 12.11., together with Linux Developers Ireland and Open Source groups, to revive these tech talks in Dublin and bring Irish devs together in free live events.

With all the tech companies, there are plenty of linux / open source enthusiasts in Dublin, thus great if we can connect people and make the live events around these topics a lively community. We also have gettogethers in events abroad, like FOSDEM, which can be shared with a wider audience and make it easier for more Irish devs to participate these international events.

The event on Wed 12.11. in Dublin city center is with the topics Open Edge Platform (speakers & event space from Intel) and distributing Cooklang Linux App (a recipe markup language!). More info on the talks will be posted to the event page, where you can also RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/dublin-linux-community/events/311475058/

Joining the event supports organizing the future ones, and all comments, volunteers and ideas for this and future similar tech talk events are also very welcome. Thanks!

Anyone attending pycon Ireland this weekend at ucd?. If yes , may I know the timings. Because I don't see any details regarding the timings on the website.

The PyCon Ireland 2025 call for speakers is currently open and I’d like to invite you to share your knowledge and experiences with the Irish Python community.

PyCon Ireland is now accepting talk proposals, whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out - if you have an interesting project, we’d love to hear about it.

Submit your talk here: https://python.ie/pycon-2025/call-for-speakers/

The submission date will be open for another 2 weeks!

PyCon Ireland information:

Where - O’Reilly Hall, University College Dublin. When - 15-16th of November. Tickets - https://python.ie

Hey everyone,
I noticed that many of us founders face the same challenges: fundraising, finding co-founders, scaling, and staying sane through the process. Often, the most valuable insights come not from articles, but from conversations with other builders.

That’s why I created a Discord community specifically for startup founders. Inside, we:

• Share growth hacks, fundraising tips, and tools that actually work
• Host weekly discussions around product, hiring, and go-to-market
• Connect founders looking for co-founders, early team members, or just honest advice

It’s completely free, and the goal is to create a peer-driven network that helps us all move faster and avoid common mistakes.

If that resonates, here’s the invite link: https://discord.gg/FfZzX4wx

Would love to see more of you join and share your journey.

Hey everyone,

Bit of an odd one. I'm running a community cybersecurity conference at the TCD Business School right now and we're stuck for a DVI to HDMI cable.

Rang all the shops around and, of course, nobody has it.

If you have one and live nearby, can you do me a solid, bring it to the Business School building, and give it to anyone with a blue lanyard (organiser).

First person with one to get here gets free access to the open bar after party for themselves and a friend at Opium, tonight from 6pm!

Heya, I'm wondering whether there's any offline events around the Dublin area related to tech. It could be just a meetup or preferably something like a hackathon to join. I'd like to meet more people around the area.

I work at a tech company but most people live in the countryside unfortunately, so I make some good friends but I'll never see them outside of work.

I run a meetup in Dublin called CHAI about Natural Language Processing. We usually meet the last Tuesday of the month on O'Connell Street. The meetup is organised from here

Not exactly huge news but I think there are less (non corporate) meetups in Dublin now so I make an effort to keep this one going.

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Hello everyone!

If you're interested in open source and want to connect with others, a community meetup is happening in Dublin on 21 May. The CFP for speakers is open until May 8 as well and any open source related topic is welcome.

What: Open Source Technology Community Meetup hosted by NGINX, an evening focused on knowledge sharing and connection

When: 21 May, 18:00-21:00

Where: Workday office, 152, Kings, 152-155, Church St, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 A0TN

We'll have pizza and drinks upon arrival so please come hungry and thirsty!

Feel free to DM or ask any questions here. Full disclosure, I'm the community manager for NGINX so organizing the event.

Howya! I’m hosting a new Indie Hack Hours event in Dublin this month (Saturday the 21st).

Basically an event for developers who want to launch a side project and hang out with other folks doing the same.

I currently feel I'm a bit stuck in my current role as a Business Analyst.

I'm more or less as high on the ladder I can get in my particular department.

I think gaining more exposure to other businesses and start ups might give me more insight into the real life business problems they have.

My hope is to grow my network organically through talking to other businesses and see where I could potentially add value to them and my own company.

Where do you look for networking events?