Drinking a pint of Joomla in Ireland

When I wrote to the folks in the Joomla User Group Dublin a few weeks ago, saying that I'd be in town for an event, I told them I thought it would be great if I could meet a couple members of their community.  Maybe something like a small user group meeting, talking about some of their Joomla ideas and swapping Joomla success stories.

The Dublin JUG meeting at Long Stone in Dublin during their second meeting in February 2011

I received a nice email from TechBot, who said he'd be happy to contact a few folks to see if a few of us could meet up.  This is a young user group, with a meeting and a Joomla 1.6 release party under their belt, so I didn't think more than three of us would attend.  So, it was quite a nice surprised to see nearly 20 folks fill a room in the Long Stone Inn pub around the corner from Trinity University in downtown Dublin.