Pogue Mahone
The caf's Camus.
Not a single one of my friends met their partners through work or work social events. So there’s obviously a lot of variety out there in terms of work and social lives. I’d say there’s regional, as well generational, differences at work here too.I think for a lot of semi-older people, the thing that allows them to work happily from home was built on the social life of the workplace in their mid 20s. Every single one of my friends met their partners through work or social events organised by work. It'll be pretty weird if that gets taken away.
I live in a fairly small city where it’s easy for a network of university and school friends to keep socialising, despite none of them working together, but big enough for most of them to find permanent jobs in the same city. If they had all had to scatter to different parts of the world to get work (which happens to most Irish people not from Dublin) then I’m sure works forms a more important part in their social lives.