welcome to the "sport" (does that make us all athletes
) I'm sure you will find this forum very helpfull as you learn the ropes.
As for fishing at the weekend you will need to be more specific, where your based how far your happy to travel etc, this site is used by people from all over ireland, im going out on thur night in donegal give some details and im sure it wont be long till you get a session arranged and even introduced to a local club(or group of similarily insane individuals who informally arrange to go fishing)