Founded by Darragh Sherwin in 2004. Group took a Christmas break and no-one met up afterwards. Sean O'Donnell rebooted the meetups in 2005. Soon after quite a lonely meetup by himself, Michael Twomey, Alan Kennedy, Kevin Gill, Michael Kerrin and Vicky Twomey-Lee joined Sean, and met regularly as the core 6 for awhile.
In mid-2005, Vicky took over organising Python Ireland meetups and talks till standing down as Chair in 2012 and Diarmuid Bourke took over as Chair, and Vicky is acting as co-Chair. See Python Ireland Committee <pythonie-committee> for more details.
In 2010, Python Ireland had their first Irish Python conference called PyCon Ireland, and since then, PyCon Ireland has remained as an annual event. See PyCon Ireland <pyconie> for more details.
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