You're Irish and you're away.
We built the place for that.

A newsletter and community for Irish people living outside Ireland. Real stories from real emigrants, local guides for where you live, and a network of people who know exactly what it feels like to be far from home.

What Away is

Weekly Newsletter

Dispatches from emigrants living it, local guides for your city, and the news that actually matters to Irish people overseas. No fluff.

Member Community

Connect with Irish people in your city. Find flatmates, job leads, a Gaelic football team, or just someone to get a pint with.

City Guides

Honest guides to living in London, Toronto, Sydney, New York and beyond — written by people who've already made the mistakes.

"The Irish diaspora is one of the largest and most dispersed in the world. And yet there's no modern, community-driven platform for the people living it."

Away exists because we think Irish emigrants deserve more than a news email and a heritage flag. You left for a reason. You built a life somewhere else. That deserves a place that treats your story as the point — not an afterthought.

800k+ Irish-born people living abroad
70M+ people of Irish descent worldwide
1 in 6 Irish-born people live outside Ireland
What we cover
London Visa rules, job market, Irish pubs that actually feel like home
Toronto Working holiday survival guide, Irish expat networks, real estate
Sydney Moving back, staying on, and everything in between
New York Visa traps, startup culture, Irish sports leagues, the whole story
Dublin, eventually What it's like to move back — the parts nobody warns you about
Everywhere else Berlin, Vancouver, Singapore, wherever you've landed — we cover it

Being away doesn't have to mean being on your own.

Away starts when you do — the moment you booked the flight and didn't quite know what you were leaving behind. We built this for that feeling.