Irish matchmaking festival 2012

How to Find True Love at Ireland's Famous Matchmaking Festival

The third-generation matchmaker said the surge in interest from China, which is mostly from women hoping to marry Irish farmers, has resulted in one of his busiest periods for years. And the veteran Co Clare love doctor said he expected to be even more in demand during the six-week Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival, which kicks off at the end of the month, when at least 40 Chinese people arrive looking for a partner. So farmers are seen as good husband material, because they can provide stability. Lunchtime News. Sign up to the best reads of the week from irishexaminer. Please click here for our privacy statement. Criminal barristers to withdraw services again. Criminal law barristers in Cork and elsewhere withdraw services in pay dispute.

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Every September, fifty thousand people from around the globe flock to the worlds largest matchmaking festival held each year in the small Irish village of Lisdoonvarna pop. Two lads f Read all Every September, fifty thousand people from around the globe flock to the worlds largest matchmaking festival held each year in the small Irish village of Lisdoonvarna pop. Two lads from America in search of love travel 8, miles to the festival to hire the worlds most r

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Far from the world of Tinder, the lively Dublin nightlife scene, and almost any other modern-day take on romance you care to mention, Lisdoonvarna hosts an annual autumn festival aimed, traditionally, at helping lonely rural farmers to meet a match from outside their immediate area. Despite being viewed as something of a beloved national joke, however, Lisdoonvarna has modernised substantially in recent years. The town has always been a tourist spot, almost exclusively because of its spa water, which offers the other main attraction aside from the festival. Another way of putting that is that the festival runs for over 12 hours a day, for the best part of a month.

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Lisdoonvarna – Ireland’s Love Capital

Sep 27, Illustration by Caty Bartholomew There are about 10 couples dancing out on the street in the early evening in the center of the crazy spa town of Lisdoonvarna in North Clare. It is a waltz the band are playing inside one of the crammed hotel ballrooms and bars on the other side of the windows overlooking the square. The summer is over and times are said to be hard on the economic front in the west of Ireland, but nobody told the dancers that.

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