get your passports ready. have i got the destination for you... lisdoonvarna -- home of the annual matchmaking festival!
each september the town bustles with thousands of single men and women (well, mostly men). look how many there were at the matchmaker bar last week.
this festival is 150 years old. it is said that ireland had two distinctively different classes of people in the old days and the society was mainly divided into two broad classes -- the poor and the rich. the parents of the rich kids wanted an equal match and so they contacted the matchmakers. these matchmakers traveled from town to town and attended street fairs in order to get information on the eligible bachelors and spinsters. according to traditions, they asked the parents to come attend the lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival in ireland so that they can collect a handsome dowry from the parents after the match. in ireland today, there is only one such matchmaker left who continues the traditions, and he lives in lisdoonvarna. his name is willie daly. from his home willie draws on his extensive files, notebooks and ledgers, and applies his highly attuned antennae to offer hope to thousands who ply him with their details. the lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival is the biggest festival of love in europe -- a must for all the single ladies.
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