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First Dates Ireland S11E01 (2026)
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00:09It's fine, it's cool
00:12You can say that we ain't nothing but you know the truth
00:17And guess I'm the fool
00:20Put your arms out like an angel through the dark sunroof
00:26And I cry, it's not fair
00:29I just need a little love and I just need a little hair
00:35I think I'm gonna call it love, even if you call it love
00:39I just don't love someone who calls me, baby
00:42You can catch a hundred boys and boys
00:46Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
00:50You can say it's just the way you are
00:55Make a new excuse for the stupid reason
00:59Good luck for you
01:01Well, good luck for you
01:02You're out to stop the world
01:05Just to stop the feeling
01:07Good luck for you
01:08Well, good luck for you
01:11You're out to stop the world
01:13Just to stop the feeling
01:31With a killer attitude and a badass role
01:35You may be shocked to learn that Lisa's terribly nice
01:39Do you think you're a good date?
01:41You're unreal, what are you talking about?
01:44And I'm sound, aren't I?
01:47I've no ill intention towards any human
01:48I just wanted everybody to have a time to be happy
01:51Like the ceiling can't hold us
01:54Like the ceiling can't hold us
01:56Hey girl
02:01Another one? No?
02:04Fuck
02:05My God
02:08Pleasure to meet you
02:09Pleasure to meet you too, brother
02:10You definitely brought positivity and style
02:14That's all I'm about
02:14I've been described as a hit of dopamine
02:17Because I'm so hyper
02:19But I've also been described as a wrecked head
02:23This is your place
02:24This is like a video coming to do a UFC fight or something
02:27Everybody just square up to me here, yeah
02:32My man
02:33I'm like Barbara
02:34Yeah, I love it in your head
02:36So tell me, tell me what you're looking for
02:39Are you Jacobite?
02:40Yeah
02:41This is your date, I'm afraid
02:43I mean, I requested something a little different
02:46Do you have any strategy on the date?
02:50No, I'm an absolute mess
02:57No baking
02:58Stop it
02:59Yeah
03:00You're embarrassing me
03:07Magic
03:08If it's in the air
03:09Boo
03:10Will sense it
03:15I need to feel
03:16The attraction
03:20It's more of an energy for me
03:22I think an energy can be more attractive than how someone looks
03:29It's really the vibe when I meet them
03:31It's really the vibe
03:38It's really the vibe
03:39It's really the vibe
03:40Hi there
03:40Hi, how are you?
03:41Hey, Boo
03:42Good to see you again
03:43Thank you
03:44You're a little bit nervous
03:46A little bit
03:47Yeah, okay
03:47Stay here with me
03:48We'll put you at the end and then I'll get you there, okay?
03:51I think I'd like someone who is open-minded
03:54Someone like who I can be myself with and who's comfortable being themselves
03:59Someone who's just confident and really well assured of themselves
04:09Lee Lisa
04:12Hi, oh very good way from plane. I got some flowers. Oh, you're so good. Thank you. Just so pretty.
04:18Thank you
04:20There's something in there, but you can read it later. Oh, thank you so much
04:22That's gorgeous. That's so nice. Thank you. Hi. How are you? Hi. How are you? This is babe. You were
04:28here before
04:29If I'm not mistaken. I was here before, yeah
04:31Would you like a drink? What was the one I had last time? It's got a love potion, was it?
04:35Love potion? Absolutely. Yes, please. Thank you
04:38Here, what are the chips chunky in here?
04:44What was the genuine question?
04:47You'll be too busy chatting. You won't care about the chips
04:55Not every love song is a duet. I still need it. He's a one-man band
05:05Shameless more the transit then
05:09Just kind of a one-man show. There's becky tracks on the keyboards. I have speakers microphones
05:13All the other crack as well. The gear isn't nothing too, too fancy, but it gets the job though
05:25What's your name? How are you doing? Dermot
05:26Dermot, nice to meet you. Where is the accent from? Cork
05:29North Cork. I'm from Reeling, a small village in North Cork. It's actually the highest village in Ireland
05:35What brings you on? Hopeless romantic, I suppose. Well, look, there's no such as a hopeless romantic. There has to
05:40be hope somewhere. I will try it over
05:42I'd like someone that's good crack
05:44Someone from the country, if it was possible. I'd be more able to have a conversation with them because they'd
05:48kind of get what, they'd get what I'm on about
05:52Where Shannon comes from, life isn't just sweet
05:57It's sweeter by a country mile
06:00I'm from Tornavala, so it's a small village in West Simmerich, and it's actually the longest village in Ireland
06:07I do like someone who is a bit of a culty
06:12Towny people, they just don't have like the same personality that a culty person would have
06:19Hi there
06:19Hello
06:20Well, look at you, yeah. Hey, what a nice dress you have. Thanks so much. How are you keeping? Good.
06:25A bit nervous, yeah.
06:26But okay, that's Paul's too nervous. Here we go now. This is your moment. My time to shine. This is
06:31your time to shine, huh?
06:33Well, at all the shops now, alright?
06:34Well, I missed that
06:36Hello. How are you? How are you?
06:38Well, not too bad. How are you doing? Good. I'm Shannon. Nice to meet you.
06:40See you all good.
06:41Timmerich, nice to meet you.
06:43Well, how are you?
06:45I'm not too bad.
06:45Where are you from?
06:46Cork. North Cork.
06:49Where are you traveling from yourself?
06:50Limerick, West Limerick.
06:52Newcastle West direction.
06:53I'm not too far away from yourself.
06:55Wheeling, Newmarket.
06:56Oh, really?
06:57Oh, okay.
06:58I'm not too far away from that.
07:00How are you going with yourself?
07:02So, I'm going into my final year in college. I'm doing homework teaching in Sligo.
07:05I'm very good.
07:06How about you?
07:07Car sales.
07:08Car sales? Oh, lovely.
07:09And if they have a nice car, that's a big bonus.
07:12Be nice to be the passenger princess for a while.
07:14My sister is a year older than that.
07:16And I have twin brothers there at 18, the youngest.
07:18Are your brothers Luke?
07:20Oh, Jesus Christ.
07:22I actually taught them last year on placement.
07:25In Barwick.
07:26Yes.
07:28Small world.
07:30Definitely.
07:30Oh, my God.
07:34Where are you from?
07:38I don't know.
07:38I live in Kildare now.
07:41No, I'm from the UK originally.
07:43I hear.
07:44But keep that on the down low, though.
07:45I don't like stuff.
07:46Say nothing.
07:46Yes, say nothing.
07:47Yes, say nothing.
07:48Yes, man.
07:49Where are you from?
07:50I'm from South Kildare.
07:51I'm in Nace.
07:52Well, you're right.
07:53You must say.
07:54Ah, safer.
07:55Very good.
07:56So, we're all going back to Kildare after this, right?
07:59Yeah.
07:59A few pints.
08:00Well, then nothing can you hear more.
08:07I've been single over four years now.
08:09In the last few months, I've opened myself up a lot more.
08:12I was closed off and I was busy last year, so I had no time for dating at all.
08:17So, what do you do for them?
08:19I was doing home care.
08:21Really?
08:21Yeah, I just got out with that for a break because I was just like burnt out and I'm a
08:26single parent and I don't have any help with her.
08:28Well, now that I've had more time to myself, I'm like, hmm, I actually could think about it now and,
08:34you know, I've been more optimistic.
08:36What do you do for fun?
08:37I'm a spiritual girlie.
08:38I love my tarot cards and crystals and stuff like that.
08:41I'm also creative.
08:42Okay.
08:43I write poems and I write like lyrics and stuff.
08:45I'm a musician.
08:47No way.
08:48I'm a tattoo artist as well.
08:50I own a bus company.
08:51I have a barber.
08:51I'm a musician.
08:53And whatever you want me to be, really.
08:55Friendship is so important.
08:56I want to be best friends with someone.
08:58Let's go.
09:00I have to have a good time, don't you?
09:02I want someone to have an absolute crack back.
09:04I was working at All Together Now.
09:06Was it good?
09:06I don't know.
09:07I got kicked out.
09:09You got kicked out working there.
09:11Oh my God.
09:13That was yesterday.
09:14Oh no way.
09:15And you rolled over into here today.
09:17Nah, bro.
09:18I had maybe an hour.
09:19You seem fresh enough like.
09:21No.
09:22It's Botox.
09:23Ha ha ha ha.
09:27My sister, Nancy, is the cockroach literally.
09:30No way.
09:31Yeah.
09:31Oh my God.
09:32I actually went for the Limerick Awards this year as well.
09:35Oh yeah?
09:35It's so funny.
09:36Yeah.
09:36Jesus.
09:37I didn't get no but it was a great experience.
09:40Yeah.
09:40Yeah.
09:40I got sponsored by my job in the Centre.
09:43My escort is lovely in fairness.
09:45The poor creator, he had to walk four of us up.
09:47So he had to like run up, back down again and get the next girl.
09:50Because there wasn't enough escorts for all of us.
09:53I used to play the concertina and when I went for the Rose, like that was my party piece.
09:58Yeah.
09:59I stood there in front of like a full ballroom in Adair in Count Limerick, like it was crazy.
10:05I played a keyboard and a fiddle.
10:07Oh really?
10:08Yeah, I had a more country music and metal.
10:11You were able to jive some.
10:12Yeah, I'm fairly well able to jive.
10:14Oh, very good.
10:15I actually done classes.
10:17We went for a couple of weeks but I still can barely jive like.
10:21And I love to teach with it, so.
10:22Yeah, exactly.
10:24I like going out Saturday night like any regular country fella.
10:28We'd always go to a pub where there's a bit of music on.
10:31No matter who the band is, I'll end up singing a few songs in a way.
10:34I went to school in Abbey Field, like?
10:35My father's first cousin was the principal.
10:37No way.
10:38Liam.
10:40I was saying that to the girls before I came up to.
10:42Imagine if I actually know this person, like I've seen them before.
10:44I literally said that last night too.
10:45If I drove all the way up to Dublin, she would probably like half an hour over the road.
10:51I don't know you at all that.
10:52No, I don't know you at all that.
10:53No, I don't know you at all.
10:53I don't know you at all that.
10:54I don't know you at all that.
10:54But in the West, a journal.
11:02It's been a while.
11:03I haven't done it sober.
11:08Are you okay?
11:09Yeah, it just landed on my forehead.
11:13When first meeting me, I think some people are like, oh my God, is he alright?
11:18Did he have a bunch of Red Bull or something?
11:25Some people think I'm like a dog running around.
11:28You know, I kind of have that golden retriever brain.
11:35I can't sit still for a long time, you know.
11:37I'm excited.
11:38I like the flowers.
11:40Oh, thank you.
11:40A few brownie points.
11:41You're going to help there, huh?
11:43What do you do yourself for a living?
11:44I am a doctor.
11:47Have you cash for the lady?
11:49Oh, thank you.
11:50I don't know about that, but we'll see.
11:52I've never gone too far astray from just being myself.
11:56Unapologetically myself.
11:58Wow.
11:59These actually cost a penny.
12:00Fair play.
12:00I bought them off the ladies in Grand Street.
12:02She tried to talk me out of them.
12:03She was like, they're too expensive now.
12:04And I was like, what's going on?
12:06First date?
12:08And how vulnerable does dating make you feel?
12:11Ah, brutal at times, you know.
12:13It is like marketing for your soul, you know.
12:15You're like, hi, do you want this forever?
12:18I was like talking to my mum on the way here, and she's like,
12:21Kate, just be you, but a little less.
12:23Yeah.
12:28Onya's had just about enough of a little less.
12:32What she really wants is a little more.
12:35You'll ask for clarity on the third or fourth date.
12:38And it's not like, listen, no one's asking you to settle down,
12:40like hand out a ring, nothing like that.
12:42But it's like, you're just kind of asking for like a little bit of clarity,
12:44and then they're like, whoa, like, oh, take chill pill.
12:47You need to calm down.
12:50You're being so loud.
12:51I thought as I got older, oh, yeah, like,
12:54now I'll find somebody who's like, you know, ready to settle down,
12:56like ready to, I suppose, get married, have kids.
13:01I feel like it's worse they're getting at this point.
13:07No!
13:08That doesn't matter.
13:09Oh, damn.
13:11I knew I was going to get it wrong.
13:13Yeah, well, perfection is boring.
13:16Hi, Anya.
13:19I like someone who's active.
13:21Like, I would be very, like, go, go, go.
13:22I do like a bit of facial hair as well.
13:25A little bit of confidence.
13:26Someone who's just, I suppose, good crack and a good personality as well.
13:29No, mister.
13:30Hi.
13:32Hello.
13:33How are you?
13:34Nice.
13:35So sweet.
13:35Oh, my God.
13:36Beautiful.
13:37Thank you so much.
13:38Thank you so much.
13:40Oh, my God.
13:40You look absolutely stunning.
13:42Jesus Christ.
13:42I was not expecting.
13:44Holy shit.
13:46I really, really appreciate it.
13:47Yeah?
13:47I'm actually a massive flower person.
13:49Are you?
13:49Yeah.
13:50Okay, that's great.
13:50I am.
13:50Honestly.
13:51Hi, how are you?
13:52Hi.
13:52I'm really good.
13:54What a beautiful bunch of roses here already.
13:56We're off for a good start.
14:07I'm a marine biologist.
14:09No way.
14:10Yeah.
14:10That is everybody's dream.
14:12And you're actually doing it.
14:14You're really nice eyes, by the way.
14:15Really, really pretty eyes.
14:16Yeah, yeah.
14:16Beautiful.
14:22I'm a bit of a loner.
14:23Like, I'm a bit of a lone wolf.
14:25That's fair.
14:25I've got, like, my, like, couple of best friends, and then I've got a group of acquaintances.
14:31Do you know what I mean?
14:32I love my own company.
14:34I love that.
14:35Would you consider yourself somebody confident?
14:37I've worked on it.
14:38I'm still, erm, socially awkward sometimes.
14:40I don't think that will ever go away, but I think my confidence is something that's growing.
14:44I come across as this big confident person, like, because I look a certain way, obviously
14:47fantastic, good looking, and really, really, really sexy and all.
14:51Yeah.
14:51Right?
14:51That's fair.
14:52Right.
14:52Okay.
14:56And?
15:00There's a answer to that.
15:02I know, I'm good looking.
15:03End it.
15:05I've always been class clowning.
15:07There was always so much going on in my life when I was younger that I created the
15:11person that had to be liked.
15:13I have a complicated family.
15:15I was raised with my grandparents.
15:16How was that?
15:18It was great.
15:19Okay.
15:20Until I died.
15:21Oh, I'm sorry.
15:22Hey, hey, it's the problem with the grandparents, isn't it?
15:24Fucking holding your parents.
15:25Yeah.
15:25Who knew?
15:26My grandmother passed away.
15:27My mom, like, I called my mom, passed away when I was 12, so.
15:30So I was kind of, it was upheaval from there, like, you know?
15:34So, there was a lot of, um, windy roads.
15:37My grandad died, and I was, uh, I was 23.
15:40Oh, I'm so sorry.
15:42Grandad, yeah.
15:44That's awful.
15:45I'm so sorry.
15:47Do you know what?
15:49It is what it is.
15:50Yeah.
15:50It happens, you know?
15:52You're born with a number of breaths.
15:55And every single breath you take, that number gets less.
15:58So I will never waste a breath on the side.
16:01I promise you that.
16:04I was drifting my forklift.
16:06My floor flew off the side of it.
16:08And is that your forklift?
16:10God, it is.
16:11My job forklift.
16:12I want a forklift.
16:13I want a forklift.
16:13I want to lift things.
16:14Right, so just have a forklift.
16:16Okay.
16:16Yeah, yeah.
16:17I like to...
16:18Forklift.
16:19I like to forklift.
16:19Yeah, I like to forklift.
16:23Oh my God, you made the funniest joke.
16:25You're like, I'm raging.
16:27I'm raging.
16:29I'm raging.
16:29I love driving.
16:30Really, yeah.
16:31Do all driving, eh?
16:32My father is always giving out to me.
16:34He's like, you have so much money to put up in your car, blah, blah.
16:37Have you had all done up then?
16:38I would like to have it a bit more.
16:39It's enough than I have.
16:40But I have, like, number plates and, like, pink sea covers and stuff like that.
16:45Do you get a little urban vibes?
16:47I don't know now.
16:48Can you imagine me as a teacher coming into a school at the car?
16:51You look well all right now.
16:53I would have been the quiet child in school.
16:55I would not have put up my hand light to answer a question.
16:58And now going to be the teacher that will be teaching the class, like, that's such a difference.
17:03When I went on placement in the first year, I was just outside of school myself.
17:06And then I was trying to teach these 18-year-olds.
17:08Yeah, I know.
17:08The same age as yourself, right?
17:10Yeah, literally.
17:10What did you think of my brothers there when you had them?
17:13Oh, they were grand.
17:13I had great crack with them.
17:14They were fairly troublesome, I'd say, no, the two of them.
17:17They were deadly cracking it.
17:18I'm actually going back to the secondary school I went to myself.
17:21So it's like a real full circle moment.
17:25And how long have you been working in your job then?
17:27About a year, I'd say.
17:28Oh, yeah.
17:29Before that.
17:29I had a bar myself in the market.
17:32Nice.
17:33I took over a bar when I was 19.
17:35Really?
17:36I stayed at it for a year.
17:37The tone kind of needed a lift.
17:39You know what I would say.
17:40The tone was gone quite.
17:41And when the opportunity came up, I said, let's give it a shot.
17:46Rural nightlife in general is kind of gone.
17:48It's gone to the dots.
17:49Unless there's a party or something.
17:51Yeah, exactly.
17:51I think I was the youngest publican in the country at the time I was taught.
17:55I don't know.
17:55I don't know.
17:56I have half of my mind of going back into bars again.
17:57But I don't know.
17:59Do I want to go back down the route of 2 o'clock every fucking morning?
18:01Do you know?
18:01It's tough enough like when all your friends are going out.
18:04Yeah.
18:04It's just two times down for one person.
18:07But look, I had a great year.
18:08I made great friends and everything.
18:09All of it.
18:09So I'm not all down now.
18:11It's so.
18:13Do you have any pets?
18:14We've dug it on.
18:16We've cattle.
18:17We've had hens.
18:19The hens went missing.
18:21Oh, no.
18:23Nine of them.
18:24Oh, no.
18:26They just can't figure out what happened then.
18:29Jesus.
18:30They didn't run away towards the fox.
18:32I don't know.
18:39I'm so excited.
18:40I'm kind of hungry.
18:41Yes, I'm excited too.
18:42And I only have like three default states.
18:44It's excitement or hunger.
18:45Yeah.
18:46What's the third?
18:47Sleep.
18:47Sleep?
18:48That's fair enough.
18:49That's fair, yeah.
18:50I have had a lot of relationships.
18:53It's like a running joke and my friends are like, oh, classic.
18:56This guy is better than the last guy.
18:57He's amazing.
18:58And then it just falls to shit because I have like rose colored glasses on and I just completely like
19:03dismiss other stuff.
19:04So I've stopped doing that now.
19:06Thank you so much.
19:06Thanks.
19:07I've kind of stopped settling.
19:08If the person isn't right for me, they're not right for me.
19:10And it's like, can I ask how old are you?
19:12I am 34.
19:13I'm 31.
19:13You are 31?
19:14Yeah.
19:15God, I thought, well, you look easily 25.
19:18You've got this aura about you.
19:20It's beautiful.
19:21You're by far the hottest girl I've ever got on a date with.
19:26I move every six months or so for my work.
19:28Emergency hours are bad.
19:30It doesn't really allow too much for dating.
19:32And you're living in Chamorro?
19:33I am.
19:34I just moved there two weeks ago.
19:35It's so nice.
19:36Yeah.
19:37You've got to come down.
19:38It's really cool.
19:39I do have to go down.
19:40I'm training to be a GP now.
19:42So I'm at a place in my life and my career where I can say, you know what, I'm going
19:46to take a little bit for me now.
19:47And so hopefully all that changes.
19:50I haven't even looked.
19:52Oh my God.
19:53We forgot to look.
19:53You haven't even looked.
19:54I thought you were hungry.
19:56Sorry.
19:56Sorry.
19:56Okay.
19:57Okay.
19:57Caroline for oysters.
19:59I was looking at that too.
20:00Let's get some oysters.
20:01And the Baratta as well.
20:03I was going to go with the Baratta as well.
20:05Were you?
20:05Yeah, I was.
20:06We are in sync here.
20:08I was.
20:08We are flying here.
20:15Bringing joy wherever she goes, Margaret's got happy feet.
20:20I love to dance.
20:22Oh, I love to dance.
20:24What kind of dance like?
20:26I'm a disco dancer.
20:28You make me feel like dancing.
20:31I never get to dance anymore.
20:32I dance sometimes myself in the kitchen.
20:34Would you like to find a man who's gone on his feet?
20:36That would be amazing.
20:42Oh, Lordy.
20:46Hi there, madam.
20:47Hi, how are you?
20:48Your name, please?
20:48Margaret.
20:49Nice to meet you, Martha.
20:50Nice to meet you.
20:50Well, look at you, huh?
20:51You look lonely, alright?
20:53You are.
20:53Well, either go big or go home.
20:55Isn't that what they say?
20:56Yeah, you went big.
20:57I went big.
20:59What would we not know about you by just looking at you?
21:03I suppose that I'm very adventurous.
21:05I think people look and say, ah, bless, you know, she's 67.
21:09I look at her.
21:09She's great.
21:10She's great.
21:11I dabble in aerial yoga.
21:13What's that?
21:13It's like, can you imagine a big hammock?
21:16Oh, I've seen her.
21:18And you do yoga with the support of that.
21:20Very good.
21:21I am pretty independent.
21:23Go on holidays on my own.
21:25Quite happy within myself to spend time on my own.
21:27But it would be nice to have a partner in crime.
21:30And what are you hoping for?
21:31I don't know.
21:34I'd like to meet somebody nice and have a nice dinner.
21:38I'm sure we'll see what happens.
21:39We can't all be fluent in the language of love.
21:43Take Robin.
21:44He frequently sends out the wrong message.
21:47My daughter says I'm a terrible texter.
21:50Communication breakdown.
21:52There's four stops everywhere.
21:53Are you upset?
21:55Communication breakdown.
21:56She says my texts sound rude and abrupt.
22:00Hello.
22:01I'm just too scared to try on my dating apps or what the like,
22:05because I'm sure it wouldn't go well.
22:09All right, Margaret.
22:10Hello.
22:11Hello.
22:12How are you?
22:12I'm well.
22:13Lovely to meet you.
22:13Nice to meet you.
22:15Is it for you?
22:17Oh, my Lord.
22:18Thank you so much.
22:19They're beautiful.
22:21And what's your name?
22:22Margaret.
22:22Hello, Margaret.
22:23Robin, nice to meet you.
22:24That's not an Irish accent, Robin.
22:26It's, I'm from Melbourne.
22:28Oh.
22:28Australia.
22:29My family are here.
22:30I have a daughter.
22:31And she's here, is she?
22:32She's here with a lovely husband.
22:33She has a four-month-old and a four-year-old that are like magnets.
22:40Yes.
22:40Just drawing in.
22:41The grandchildren are the love you didn't think you had to give.
22:46What I'm wanting is someone who is warm, lovely, similar interests.
22:51So whether it be film, music, dance.
22:53My eldest granddaughter is 21.
22:56She is a light of my life.
22:59We'll go out to the cinema and we'll go for a bite to eat or we'll go shopping.
23:03We'll go to shows together.
23:04Someone who is ready for an adventure.
23:08And I already know we've got an area of interest.
23:10You like film?
23:11I love film.
23:12I love film.
23:13And cheers.
23:14And cheers.
23:15Lovely to meet you.
23:16I'm looking forward to dinner.
23:17I'm excited.
23:19Cheers.
23:19And thank you again for my beautiful flowers.
23:21Pleasure.
23:24She's a lovely girl.
23:25Do you know when you meet someone and you're like, man, they're just like, I don't know
23:30though if she'd be able for me.
23:33Yeah, she's a bit too quiet for me.
23:35Is she?
23:36I don't know.
23:36I'd have to like see how like the rest of the night goes.
23:40How vulnerable does dating make you feel?
23:42The vulnerability of probably a two-year-old child lost in the middle of a city.
23:47When it comes to being like in an actual romantic setting.
23:49Which is awesome.
23:51A lot of confidence.
23:52You know.
23:53Like that.
23:53I'm 36.
23:54Nothing's ever worked out.
23:55I was really quiet in my 20s to be fair.
23:58I, yeah, I remember mentally in my 30s.
24:01You can feel vulnerable, but it makes me feel optimistic also.
24:05If the person's not right for you, you're one step closer to the person who is.
24:08I was mentally in my 20s.
24:10I loved the session.
24:11I was a bit of a rape.
24:12So you were, you were a session when were you?
24:14I was a bit of a session when.
24:16Okay.
24:17Okay.
24:18Would you go out-lock not at?
24:20I've often gone out in Newcastle as well because like I would know a lot of like people from Newcastle.
24:24I still can't get over all fucking close.
24:26I don't know what's mad.
24:27My parents separated when I was young.
24:30So my dad is remarried and my mom has a new partner.
24:32And they both have three children each with their new partners.
24:36So I have two sisters and four brothers and they're all under the age of eight.
24:41It is crazy at every house.
24:44But it's a crazy that I love.
24:47Do you think you'd like to stay in Ireland, like settle down in Ireland like her?
24:50I would think so.
24:52Yeah.
24:52I'd like to stay very close to home.
24:54Yeah.
24:55I've always lived in my life.
24:57I'm actually planning to build a house on a site at home in the near future.
25:03Your sister, she works in Bob's Bar, doesn't she?
25:06Brian is the manager there.
25:07He sure is.
25:08His, like, fiance is like, like, I've grown up with her.
25:12Like, she's best friend of my whole family and everything, like.
25:15So, yeah.
25:16And his best man is closing my mind.
25:19Really is a small world.
25:21I'm telling you.
25:21You don't care for what you're saying, I wouldn't you?
25:25Yeah.
25:25Got the cute starters.
25:26Okay.
25:26Put it in the middle.
25:27Yeah, throw it in the middle.
25:28Yeah, thank you so much.
25:28Oh my God, I'm so excited.
25:29You're the best.
25:31Right, okay.
25:31Can I feed you, Kim?
25:32You want to do a little-
25:33You can't feed me an oyster.
25:35No.
25:37I will cheers you with this, though.
25:39I will 100%.
25:40Okay, so.
25:41To the best first date ever.
25:43Well, I think so.
25:44There you go.
25:45Okay.
25:47How would I know that you fancy your date?
25:50I would probably be staring intently into their eyes.
25:54You don't like me to feed you, so I'll put it on the little leaf.
25:57Yeah.
25:57I'm gonna put it on the leaf.
25:59Do you like it to match?
26:02It would be really obvious, yeah.
26:03I'd be very excited.
26:04Speaking a mile a minute.
26:05If I didn't get a laugh, I would not stop until I did.
26:09From North Carolina, originally.
26:11We moved when I was a little kid.
26:12So I can come off as kind of like a self-dub, you know.
26:14All my mates are like, hey, what are you getting on?
26:16We're all finance bros.
26:18Here's a gown.
26:19Accountants and all.
26:20Sorry, do you work for KBMG?
26:24It's just that golden retriever mentality, you know.
26:26He's like, this is gonna be the greatest thing ever.
26:29I got to talk to you like a South Atlantic.
26:31What do you see?
26:31What do you do?
26:32I'll get you the moon.
26:33Listen here, darling.
26:34Why don't we take this drink to go?
26:44I have four children.
26:46Oh, wow.
26:47I've been married twice.
26:48Okay.
26:49There's two children from my first marriage.
26:51Mm-hmm.
26:52And I inherited two children in my second marriage.
26:54Oh, okay.
26:56And you're commuting at the moment?
26:58Just sold the family home.
27:00Oh, did you?
27:00Okay.
27:01Started the registration process to be a teacher in Ireland.
27:05For the last 23 years, I've been a teacher.
27:07I've worked in Aboriginal rural communities,
27:10working with Aboriginal adults and disengaged teenagers.
27:14That love of teaching is still there.
27:16So it's something that I still wish to continue.
27:19So two wives, come on.
27:20I'm curious.
27:21Oh, yes.
27:22I have to be honest.
27:23Aren't I?
27:24First marriage was at 21.
27:26Oh, me and you both, yeah.
27:27We had 16 wonderful years.
27:30But I think we both changed.
27:31Yeah, our lives were different as individuals.
27:34Yes, I was married a second time.
27:37And that relationship lasted nearly two decades.
27:40Yeah.
27:40I think I'm a better person partnered by being single many years.
27:45And now I'm ready to fill that void.
27:47I was married for 27 years before I got separated.
27:51The first thing I did when I got separated was I signed up to do a degree.
27:57I did a degree in marketing part-time.
27:59Oh, done.
27:59Yeah.
28:00I had been in a relationship from such a young age that I just needed to find myself.
28:07Like, come back to the person I should have been if I, I would have been if I hadn't gotten
28:12married when I got married.
28:14Do you travel?
28:14Yeah.
28:15I, like last year or now, I would have been in Houston and I would have been in Geneva
28:19and Dubai.
28:20But I do love to travel.
28:22I travel a lot on my own though.
28:23I go on holidays on my own.
28:25So.
28:25But would you travel on your own?
28:27Everything I've done recently is on my own.
28:29Is on your own?
28:30Yes.
28:36How are you getting on?
28:37Happy also.
28:38That's very good.
28:39The matchmakers have done a good job.
28:41Sorry, yeah.
28:42You'll actually never guess.
28:43His sister is the car rose.
28:45No way.
28:46I swear to God.
28:47I thought his brother is a poor boy and his sister is the car rose this year.
28:54What are the chances?
28:55Genuinely, what are the chances?
29:01Did you roll out of the outfit for it?
29:03I did, yeah.
29:04I saw the amount of stuff I had.
29:05Now you'd think I was staying up here for about a week, like.
29:07I went to the club shop in the market.
29:09I told her where I was going.
29:11Did you?
29:11She said, call back to me in a few days.
29:13Then I picked it up.
29:14I earned a dollar right to go.
29:15Oh, brilliant.
29:17What was the best thing about your date?
29:20Let's say, figuring out that we were so close to each other.
29:22Can I give you cash?
29:23Is that okay?
29:24Yeah, yeah, of course it's okay.
29:25Yeah, yeah.
29:25Will we split it?
29:26No.
29:27Are you sure?
29:27I'm positive.
29:28All-fashioned, I like this.
29:29All-fashioned, that's it.
29:32Not at all.
29:33That's one thing I was actually worried about last night as well.
29:35Like, will they take cash?
29:38Very nice girl.
29:39Very good-looking girl.
29:40I was very nervous, of course.
29:42But...
29:43I got over it.
29:44Eventually.
29:49No job I didn't get that.
29:54So, do you guys think he'd like to see each other romantically again?
30:02I was.
30:04I'd say, yeah.
30:09Thank you very much.
30:10Thank you, thank you.
30:13He seemed like a lovely lad from the second I sat down.
30:16Maybe he was a culture anyway, which was what I had asked for.
30:21I had a liaisy to talk to.
30:23I don't know much.
30:27Do you think he could be boyfriend material?
30:30He definitely could be, yeah.
30:32Yeah.
30:33Where will your second date be?
30:36I'll be close at home in my, sure.
30:37I don't know much brother.
30:51You're welcome on my mum.
30:57I'm in my mum.
30:59I'm in my mum.
31:01Oh my mum.
31:05I'm in my mum.
31:06I'm in my mum.
31:07Thank you so much.
31:09You hardly thought I was going to moonwalk behind the bar.
31:12There's something in the flowers that, eh...
31:15Oh, thank you.
31:18Just have a look behind the bars.
31:24What's this?
31:26My roomie.
31:27Ah!
31:38What?
31:41It was my room key.
31:43Oh.
31:44Well, I actually think you're nicer than that.
31:46So, there is a driver organised to bring you home.
31:49What are you talking about?
31:51I have a driver organised to bring you home.
31:53All the way home?
31:54It's on the bed.
31:56Wow, okay.
31:58So, you were expecting someone to go up to your room tonight, were you?
32:01Yeah.
32:02You don't know who you're going to meet.
32:04Okay.
32:04I think you're more respectful than that.
32:07No, you judge me, right?
32:10Yeah, I think so.
32:14You're a nice girl.
32:20Do you like to cook?
32:21Sometimes.
32:22I wouldn't say I'm a great cook, but I enjoy feeding people, you know?
32:25I like to cook.
32:25Love making fries.
32:27Sourdough?
32:27Yeah.
32:28Love sourdough.
32:29I tried once, I made a brick.
32:31Why do you think your mum would say you're single?
32:33She says, I'm a bit all over the place.
32:36She always buys self-help books.
32:39How to manage ADHD and have a relationship.
32:41That was the last book she bought me.
32:44I write stories.
32:45You write stories?
32:46What kind of stories?
32:47Like fantasy mostly, but I also write funny stories.
32:51I'm big into fantasy books.
32:53Yeah.
32:54No way.
32:55I can't believe you write fantasy books.
32:57Yeah.
32:57It's shocking.
32:58I'm trying.
32:59What are you reading in the moment?
33:00I like the Wheel of Time.
33:01It's so good.
33:02The show, terrible.
33:03It's shockingly bad.
33:04It's so bad.
33:05I would be definitely a little bit nerdy as well.
33:07I love reading fantasy books.
33:08I do love cleaning as well.
33:10I hate to say it.
33:10My friends always know if something happened or if I ended with a lad or something like that,
33:14they're like something in that house is getting deep cleaned.
33:17I'm going to feed you.
33:18No, I'm not going to feed you.
33:19I forgot.
33:19Oh, feed me.
33:20Fuck it.
33:21Really?
33:22I don't know what I'm doing.
33:23This is shocking.
33:24You don't even do this.
33:25I never do this.
33:27I'm going to feed you now.
33:28You're going to feed me?
33:32Is this my fork or your fork?
33:33I don't give a fork.
33:35It's your fork.
33:36No.
33:36Oh my god.
33:36You didn't.
33:37I did.
33:38Just do a fork.
33:39That was actually pretty good.
33:40Do you like dad jokes?
33:41I do.
33:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:42Okay, so you make bread.
33:44I make bread.
33:45You're super hot.
33:45You read fantasy.
33:47My weird matches your weird.
33:49Let's do it.
33:49Yeah.
33:54She's a lovely girl.
33:56She's too lovely for me though.
33:57She's lovely.
33:57She's good looking.
33:58She's a mammy.
34:01She's like...
34:02She's still a really beautiful person.
34:03But I kind of felt really bad then.
34:05Because I gave her a bunch of flowers with my room key.
34:07And I was like...
34:09I think it's fine.
34:10I have a car organized for you to go home.
34:11Here, do you want to swap seats?
34:13Come on.
34:14Come on.
34:14Just...
34:15Just shut the swap seats to me.
34:17Of course.
34:17Just do it.
34:18Go and swap seats to me.
34:19I got flowers.
34:22I've never got flowers on a date before.
34:24Yeah, we'll just see how it goes.
34:26It's good fun at the moment.
34:28Like, she's really funny.
34:30Mad, your chips are lovely.
34:32You got it.
34:32You got it.
34:33Listen.
34:34You just look forward and enter me.
34:40Hi guys.
34:41Am I staying with you?
34:42I didn't go.
34:43This is...
34:44Lee.
34:46Sorry.
34:47Boo.
34:48Are you Lee?
34:50No, that's...
34:51What's your name?
34:52Callum.
34:52Hi, Callum.
34:53Hiya.
34:54Hiya.
34:54What's your name?
34:55Yeah.
34:55I can't be nice to meet you.
34:58Lad, if you want mine, can I actually get my seat back?
35:00Yeah.
35:01My day is over there.
35:02Yeah, you are.
35:02It's a bit rude.
35:07Hiya.
35:08Hiya.
35:09Hiya.
35:09Hiya.
35:10Hiya.
35:10Hiya.
35:11And your company has been lovely so far.
35:15I'm gonna just be in my mouth so...
35:17You're allowed.
35:18I will too.
35:18That's okay.
35:19How's that?
35:19Okay.
35:22My mother was Italian.
35:23We all had fish and chip shops, so we all lived over fish and chip shops and whatever.
35:27Italian heritage.
35:28yeah they would have come over as immigrants and they had nothing as mom
35:34oh yeah we did have land initially it was great for growing rocks do you ever
35:44get lonely I call it Sunday blues that Sunday feeling when everybody's with
35:49their family everybody's with their other half everybody has somebody except
35:53you this is my fierce and I have a cat on the swing see it's a bit of a joke
36:00because you gotta embrace it being single can be lonely I enjoy going to
36:07gigs on my own or the cinema on my own but I think having company would be a
36:12better thing do you like your live music yes I love music I love everything from
36:19opera to pop and anything in between music makes you happy yeah I find music
36:26medicinal yes I'm a member of a full part harmony chorus so in Melbourne but
36:34there's a group here that I've been to one of their meetings and so that's that's a
36:40group that I'd be joining coming up there's a forming could be Wexford okay
36:46it's done down the road so um yeah if there's a second day perhaps we can go
36:53there
36:58this girl is amazing she makes bread she likes fantasy books she's marine
37:05biologists super hot she is absolutely stunning she is a 10 out of 10 Leah she
37:11is perfect this is so good
37:17well I'm glad nobody's really losing their cool no nobody's losing their cool as I
37:23jump up and down yeah nice and calm cool it down no but I really like her she's
37:28doing this I hope if I can just nail this next bit I think I think I think I got
37:35a
37:35winner I don't like being in situations with people like me like you yeah people
37:42like me you're a little bit a little bit wise some people that are calmer than you
37:47handle you know and that's the problem you seem very calm or is there a while is
37:56there you get me I really good time really pretty girl really quiet total
38:04opposite of me you put the whole thing in your mouth yeah stop it I can be a
38:10little bit like all over the place and like it's fun to me but it could be
38:14embarrassing some other people I think she deserves a bit better I would like to
38:19pay the village that's okay are you sure absolutely honestly you've been a delight
38:23I'll take it down would you like to see each other again romantically go ahead hardly ladies
38:32first um I I would say we'd be good as friends should you agree yeah what are you gonna make
38:44show you everywhere we go thank you my flowers there is that spark and like I
38:54think sometimes it's just not there and this one it wasn't more it doesn't mean
38:58there wasn't a spark of like similarity interests yeah yeah definitely man thank
39:04you it was a pleasure thank you see ya see ya bye it was really fun day it's great
39:09crack I think we'd be really good as friends yeah for sure yeah for sure definitely here go on then
39:15you might as well
39:26can I just say I love your accent thank you and I love yours I can understand yours
39:30thank you picturing how the day could go horribly wrong I thought there'd be lots
39:35of instances in me asking sorry what did you say sorry what did you say but that never happened
39:41that's years of education essence no way love to me is when you're not trying to change somebody to be
39:49who you want them to be is it okay to be vulnerable wanting to spend time with them and being
39:56happy when
39:57they're doing something they want to do without you that it's that's okay too sounds like you do a lot
40:02of
40:03traveling see some you know if we were to have a second date and beyond it's
40:09something that we could do together and and apart and we'd both be okay with that
40:13absolutely I have to be very honest please I'm not looking to get married again
40:20I'm looking for a companion I hate that word because it makes you sound very old
40:25but I don't mean it in that sense I get exactly what you've just said yes
40:29that's that's that's it you don't have to think about being in love it's just comfortable having
40:37the confidence in another person that they get you now there's a period of my life that I recognize
40:43that you know there's am I lonely no but what I like to be in a relationship yes okay I
40:53get you I get you
40:55that's me I'm not lonely I'm very content but I'd love somebody in my life there you go yeah because
41:03all I wanted Margaret out of this was to meet someone who got me yeah and um and that's all
41:10I wanted was
41:18somebody who got me
41:18mmm that umami is so good sorry I watch a lot of Gordon Ramsay
41:24oh of course of course it's my emotional support show that in the office the office is my comfort show
41:30yeah it's my comfort show yeah I watched that last night that's amazing why did we both watch it
41:41we're both nervous what would you love to come out of this honestly you'd be great to find a partner
41:46I
41:47have six siblings I was seven of us all together seven big family are you close to your family yeah
41:51yeah we're very close five of them live in America me and my little sister live here and my parents
41:56live
41:56here so I grew up in a very very loving household you know it was just hugs laughter everywhere it's
42:02hard to go and be alone after a lifetime of that and where do you fall on that do you
42:08want to have
42:08kids you want to settle down yeah I want to kids I want to sell down yeah whatever to sell
42:12me too yeah
42:13yeah yeah fun how many do you want um if you fucking say seven it's not happening okay I'll settle
42:23for five
42:24oh my god I'm only joking I would like just to go home to someone and you know no matter
42:29what life
42:29throws at you there's always your best friend at home you know it'd be nice how do you find the
42:36moving around that's awful yeah I'm not gonna lie like it it has to be done we have to do
42:40every
42:41position how long does it have to be done so I have a year-long post in Tremor and then
42:46I'm back in
42:46the hospital on medical call for four months don't worry I'll come back every weekend if you're if you're
42:51crossing me no no honestly I travel a lot for work as well do you but maybe we could you
42:59know circuits
43:00could work yeah if you want to go on more dates and I would love to go on and have
43:05a date I really
43:06love it this is perfect yeah yeah you're perfect perfect oh that looks gorgeous enjoy look at you
43:22now go for it go on okay do I crack it I don't know I don't know oh no it
43:27doesn't cry oh it's soft oh
43:29oh look at you did you feel a spark I did yes I did feel a spark I'm very happy
43:36with my choice
43:36hmm do you want to taste would you like a taste there was just so many connections that it was
43:43like
43:45tick tick tick she's again cheers to our first date first we're both wanting the same thing it just
43:56started to feel right thank you very much thank you you're very welcome gentlemen absolutely flowers
44:04and dinner I know I've been looking forward to this for a while would you guys like to see each
44:13other
44:13again do you want to go first or should I please do I'd like to yes very much and I'd
44:20like to also yes
44:23thank you thank you he's so nice handsome beautiful eyes oh and I love the accent absolutely love the
44:43accent we were ticking off boxes of the different things that we had in common lots to learn about
44:53one another it was all it was meant to be from do you think Robin is boyfriend material yes it's
45:02exciting
45:02it is exciting yeah where will date number two be I think it will include red wine yes live music
45:13yes and I think I'll maybe invite you out to Malahide Malahide it's happening
45:39now so I'm here to tell you lovely people we gotta go about 10 minutes are you serious oh my
45:45god it
45:45actually flew I thought it was just beginning tell me what went through your mind when you first saw her
45:52oh my god I was like oh god way out of my league here absolutely not thank you so much
45:59the chats were
46:01absolutely amazing she is exactly my type of girl and through and through thank you so much the
46:06service is great everybody's great 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 would recommend such a pleasure to have
46:12you
46:12love yeah that's fun would you like to see each other again romantically yes did you plan that no
46:25I thought you were gonna say first man oh I said oh do I say it first you have to
46:28say yes yes a hundred
46:30percent yes a thousand percent yes yes I'm really glad we met me too I'm really glad to see I
46:39think
46:39this is gonna be this is something special I just want to know you better know you better now it
46:47was
46:47amazing so nice so genuine very similar values wants to get married wants to have kids I just can't
46:55believe he hasn't been kind of like snapped up at this point I actually brought a jumper for you as
47:03in
47:04case you wanted to go and drink with me yeah I have a wedding coming up in Italy I need
47:12a plus
47:12one for it when's winning and September and there's another one in Edinburgh okay let's let's swan dive
47:19into this we're going if life has taught me anything it's that you don't know what's around the corner I
47:31had definitely kind of given up for a while and I did have a good feeling about this date but
47:36I didn't
47:36fully know I feel like I've always wanted someone like her you know not to jump the gun or anything
47:44but I felt she I could definitely wake up to her someday he takes literally all the boxes
47:54he's definitely boyfriend material yeah
48:04come back and tell me why
48:09oh I think you're like giggly cheating
48:11oh well you're never too old
48:28what do you think a little jive
48:30I don't take a joke
48:32best I could have about four pints before
48:46I would like to take you to places that you'll like and just see a smile I like being taken
48:50to
48:50places let's do it
48:52everything has changed
48:55all I know is a new foundation all my days I know you'll fix all I know said yesterday is
49:04everything has changed
49:11so
49:23so
49:24so
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