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A Free Together We Thrive Evening Talk

Ninety Minutes On How The World's Longest-Lived People Actually Live

In a handful of places — Sardinia, Okinawa, Ikaria — people routinely reach their nineties still working, still walking, still eating with their neighbours. Researchers have spent decades asking why. Come and hear what they found, and how much of it transfers to a Thursday night in Tipperary.

THU 30 JUL 2026  ·  NENAGH ARTS CENTRE  ·  8:00PM
FREE TO ATTEND

Free. We'll email you the venue details and one reminder.

Let's Start Where You Probably Are

You've Heard Enough Health Advice

Every week brings a new rule about what to eat, what to avoid and what's quietly doing you harm. Most of it contradicts last week's. If you've stopped listening, that's not laziness — that's a sensible response to noise.

Here's the interesting part: the people who live longest aren't following any of it. Three things usually stand between us and anything useful they could teach.

01

Noise

Advice arrives faster than anyone can test it, and every bit of it sounds equally certain. Tuning it out is a reasonable response — it just leaves you no better off.

02

Distance

It's easy to write off a Sardinian village as somewhere with better weather and nothing to teach an Irish town. Some of it is exactly that. Some of it isn't — and that's the part worth an evening.

03

Doing It Alone

Almost everything these communities do well, they do together. That's the hardest thing to copy out of a book, and the reason most good intentions quietly fade.

None of these people optimised anything. They lived somewhere that made the healthy thing the easy thing and the shared thing. A fair amount of that is buildable, wherever you happen to live — which is what the evening is about.

Who's Behind This

We're Not Going To Sell You Anything

Together We Thrive is a community of ordinary people — teachers, tradespeople, parents, retirees — who got interested in this and started building some of it into their own lives. We run these talks around Ireland, the UK and Europe because it's a conversation that works far better in a room than in a comment section.

 

This Is What The Room Feels Like

We've Done This Before

TWT events run across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Here's footage from two of them so you know exactly what you're walking into.

 
 

How It Works

Three Steps. That's The Whole Thing.

STEP ONE

Claim Your Free Seat

Takes about twenty seconds. Name and email, that's it.

STEP TWO

Turn Up At Eight

Ninety minutes, one talk, questions at the end. Nothing to bring and nothing to prepare.

STEP THREE

Take What's Useful

Some of it will suit your life and some of it won't. You're the one who decides which is which.

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What You Walk Out With

Something Worth The Evening

You'll leave with your own view of what's in this, formed from the actual evidence rather than someone's summary of it.

What was actually found

Where the research was done and what held up — rather than the version that gets flattened into a headline.

What transfers

Which habits travel to an Irish town, and which ones are really just Mediterranean weather.

Questions taken seriously

Ask at the end. The sceptical ones especially — those tend to be the good ones.

People in the room

Locals already doing some of this, who you can talk to afterwards rather than read about.

The Decision You're Actually Making

It's One Evening

Ninety minutes on a Thursday. Here's what sits on each side of it.

If You Skip It

Thursday Night

An evening much like the last one. Nothing lost.

But the question of whether there's anything in this stays exactly where it's been sitting — open, and quietly costing you nothing you'd notice.

If You Come

Thursday Night

You'll have heard the case made properly and decided for yourself what's worth keeping and what isn't.

Ninety minutes is a low price for closing a question you've half-carried for years.

On The Night

Who's Speaking

Guest speaker

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Declan Dore DD

Declan Dore DD

Host · Founder, Together We Thrive

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Where & When

Event Details

Nenagh Arts Centre
Town Hall, Banba Square, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Eircode: E45 CD52

Thursday 30th July 2026

Itinerary
19:45   Doors & Registration
20:00 – 21:30   Talk & Questions

COST TO ATTEND: FREE

The Questions Everyone Asks

Seating Is Limited

Come And Hear It

The room seats a set number and we work off the registration list, so it does close. Worst case, you've given up ninety minutes on a Thursday.

We'll email you the details and a reminder before the night. Nothing else.