A pub which is providing 'free marriage counselling' wants to bring back the art of the chat up line again in rural communities
Swans of Curragha is still getting calls about a sign they placed outside the pub ahead of Valentine's Day last year looking for a wife for a local farmer who had frontage and 40 milking cows.
This year, the well-known pub in the village of Curragha, Co Meath, is offering a listening ear for anyone with any love problems
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The tongue-in-cheek post also offers a more serious tone to anyone who may be suffering mental health issues and needs someone to chat to.
It reads: "Hydration and wellbeing providers. Marriage Counselling. Mental Health Advice. Dating service. Confessional open seven days. Our highly trained bar staff are here ready to advise you. First consultation free."
Owner Paddy Swan says the signs are a little different and always bring in a few people who want to have the craic.
"The barman is always the one people can have the craic to or tell their woes to. It's the sanctity of the barman that he can't tell another soul what has been said. That said, he is also a listening ear if someone is feeling down but we aren't professionals in that field so we will always offer the numbers of people who can help."
Paddy said that the pub has received so many calls about rural dating since their poster last year that they are arranging a matchmaking festival for later in the year
"We are still getting emails from people and from documentary makers who want to include us in filming.
"It's all a bit of craic but we do feel that Tinder has taken the art of chat up lines away from pubs. Now, people have arranged to meet their date before they come into the pub
"Gone are the lines of 'do you want to dance,' do you come here often' or even, get your coat, you're pulled,' he laughed
"They've all been made redundant and we want to bring that flurry of romance and love at first sight back. Romance is still alive in Curragha as far as I'm concerned.
"We need more couples and more kids for the GAA club and the school around here so we are holding a matchmaking festival in the summer and see if young people can meet up the old ways
"There are still a lot of rural men looking for love but I think with Instagram, the girls are becoming a bit picky. They are looking for the six packs and the perfect man. I'm not sure the perfect man exists but we can offer a bit of road frontage and hardworking men in their place."
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