Ask HN: Has anyone hosted a local HN Meetup?

I've Been thinking about hosting a HackerNews Meetup in my city (Dublin, Ire) but having been to a few meetups what i want is an actual social event, i don't want an agenda pushing event of people decending looking for someone to code there next big AI app (Uber for dogs), I jsut want a space to chat about the things that come up on this fourm, Complain about digital ID, why you think Rust is the second coming of a religious entitiy.

has anyone had sucess in orgainised one of these kind of meetups in a pub like once a month?