IEThe Irish Times
‘Irish friend groups can be impenetrable – will I have the same issue when I move abroad?’
Ask Roe: ‘Am I wrong to think people in their mid-20s have little interest in making friends outside their circle?’
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- #1862
- First seen
- 23 Aug 2026, 05:22 UTC
- Last checked
- 24 Aug 2026, 10:55 UTC
- Version history
- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata

- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 23 Aug 2026, 05:10 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Roe McDermott
- Section
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Source-supplied excerpt
Ask Roe: ‘Am I wrong to think people in their mid-20s have little interest in making friends outside their circle?’
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‘Irish friend groups can be impenetrable – will I have the same issue when I move abroad?’
Ask Roe: ‘Am I wrong to think people in their mid-20s have little interest in making friends outside their circle?’
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Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #1495
- Observed
- 23 Aug 2026, 05:22 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 875,405 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt