How do i find old friends in ireland?

Question

How do i find old friends in ireland?

Answer 1

If you know what town they came from, the phone book is as good a place as any to start. And we often see Letters to the Editor in local newspapers appealing for contacts.  Anyone who lives in a town, especially rural towns,  reads their own local newspaper.

Put their name into a  search with www.yahoo.ie or www.google.ie.  I was messing around with the computer one afternoon and put in my own name, and up popped an article from a local paper years ago where I won a prize.  Anyone looking to find me would have had an easy job,  as the article mentioned my name, my husband's and the name of the town where we live.  I did the same with the name of an acquaintance, and found he had once won a sack race on sports day in his own town.  So it might be just worth a chance in helping to locate your friends.

Other ideas  -  if they are on the electoral register for voting here, that can be checked at post offices, public libraries, Garda stations, courthouses or local authority offices.  Here again, you would need to know the town.  I could not check the Dublin register in the Cork library, for example  -  they would only have the Cork one.

If they were churchgoers, you could try via that route.  

Good luck, and come and visit them when you find them !!

Answer 2

Hello, a few links to get you on you way to find your friends..Best of luck

Answer 3

Go on the Eircom home page, put in their name and address or town and hopefully you'll get their number.

Answer 4

facebook? friends reunited?

anything like that should be useful if you don't wanna go to anyone and ask.

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Answer 5

Hello Mandy,

                      There's a very good chance that your friends you are seeking may be catholic, if that's the case, why not nip along to your own church where you are and if the priest there knew them, they maywell have mentioned to him where they were going to in Ireland, as 94% of the population in Ireland are catholic and he could maybe put out a shout for you, and they must have an address in Ireland somewhere..

                       One of my family moved house in Ireland, to another IRISH ADDRESS, and I wrote to him, and the post office in Gort Co Galway knew where he was, and the master at the post office nipped my letter to my relative, at Corofin, in Co Clare, a distance of about 15 miles.I am now in regulat contact with my relation again... would the British post office do that? I don't think so.. If you know where abouts and in what County in ireland your friend is living, just try the Greatest Postal System in Europe...Good Luck Mandy... bye Tony M

Answer 6

freinds reunited or ask the local priest

Answer 7

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