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Robbie Kane & Alex Dunne

Footage captures beautiful moment couple get engaged on Grafton Street on Christmas Eve

This was the beautiful moment a lovestruck couple got engaged on Christmas Eve on Dublin's Grafton Street.

Surrounded by the festive atmosphere and twinkling Christmas light, one lucky man heard his girlfriend say 'yes' to that all important question: will you marry me?

The shocked bride-to-be Larragh Landgren was totally surprised when her partner Daniel Castanho stopped and popped the question in the middle of the street.

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The couple were on a festive walk around the city with their friends when the lovely moment happened. The friends were in on the surprised and managed to capture it all on camera.

Dan got down on one knee at the big Christmas tree outside St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre.

Larragh is originally from Australia, and Daniel is Brazilian. The pair met five years ago in Dublin having both moved here.

“We met here five years ago, and since then we’ve been together, living together here, and finally we got engaged in the place that brought us together,” Daniel told Dublin Live.

Larragh was overcome with emotion. “I’m so happy, I’m in shock!” she gasped. And when asked if she expected a proposal, she said: "Not at all, no... I was just giving out to him!”

Their friends who were walking with them were in on Daniel's plan, and they also captured the surprise moment for their other friends and family. Daniel said: “I brought a couple of my friends, my niece is there as well, just to help me film it and everything. It’s quite a moment!”

Their proposal happened just metres away from Glen Hansard and Imelda May leading a chorus of hundreds of Dubs singing 'Fairytale of New York' at their Christmas busk outside the Gaiety Theatre.

Up to 1,000 people were gathered outside the Gaiety to witness Glen's annual Christmas busk return in-person after a Covid-enforced break for the last two years.

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