There may only be just 4 million+ of us Irish folk, but we do have an Irish PHP User Group which started up recently. If you’re anywhere near Dublin or Cork cities on the last Wednesday of any month, meetings are held at 8pm on those days at two venues:

Dublin Meeting: The Longstone Pub on Townsend Street (close to Tara St. DART station), 8pm, last Wednesday of every month.

Cork Meeting: The Gresham-Metropole Hotel, Cork City Centre, 8pm, last Wednesday of every month.

Besides drinking, attendees discuss all things PHP (honest!). The first Cork meet is this coming Wednesday, 25 July 2007. In Cork? A PHP developer, or just enjoy a little hacking on the side? Drop by if you’re free. You’ll meet fellow PHP users to agonise with over which PHP framework to try using.

If you’re not a Corkonian, or at least not living among the natives there, the Dublin meeting might be more convenient for you.

If, like me, you can’t attend all meetings, you can grab us for a chat on the UG’s IRC channel: #phpug on the irc.php.ie server. And hey, we even have mailing list. Go! Sign up!