How to join

Membership is open to retired and semi-retired men and women whose day is no longer taken up with paid or unpaid work. Joining an Active Retirement Association offers you:

  • Friendship
  • A wide range of interesting activities
  • New creative skills in arts and crafts 
  • Educational opportunities
  • Sporting activaties, both indoor and outdoor
  • Holidays, mid-week breaks and day-trips
  • Support and information
  • Members' benefits such as discounts and special offers

For information on your local group, call us on 01-8733836

Setting up a Local Group


If there is no Association in your area, why not get together with some friends and start one? Active Retirement Ireland will supply you with information and advice through an advisory service from our development officers for new Associations. For more details on membership or setting up an Active Retirement Association, just call Active Retirement Ireland on 01-8733836 or email info@activeirl.ie

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Current affairs

May 7, 2013The Carbon tax will have a serious financial and social impact on some of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens – Active Retirement Ireland
The introduction of the carbon tax on solid fuel will have a serious financial and social impact on some of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens according to Active Retirement Ireland.
Apr 24, 2013Statement by Active Retirement Ireland on the National Positive Ageing Strategy
The Strategy was launched today (24/04/2013) by Minister Kathleen Lynch
Mar 19, 2013Older People Urged to Claim UK Fuel Grant
Older people who have worked in the United Kingdom are being urged to see if they are eligible for that country's Winter Fuel Allowance, writes Kelly Dundavan of the South East Region