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Brian Dillon

Newly engaged couple find video of romantic proposal after tireless social media search

A newly engaged couple have finally found the woman who recorded their romantic proposal at Dublin's Bord Gais Energy Theatre after an extensive online search.

Holly Fogarty's partner Ricky decided to get down on one knee during the interval of Les Miserable on Thursday, February 10.

One woman, who was just returning from the bathroom, was quick to grab her mum's phone to record it.

Holly was as flustered as anyone would be after a surprise proposal and managed to give the woman the wrong phone number, leading her to put a call out online for anyone who might know the who the woman was.

Holly's search was successful, with Eden reaching out to her to send her the video of the special moment.

Eden, who is from Derry, told Dublin Live that she was shocked to discover the story had gone so viral.

"I might as well be famous," she joked.

Explaining how she managed to reconnect with Holly after recording Ricky's proposal, Eden said: "She posted it in a few theatre groups, then London Musical Theatre shared a post and a friend of my mum's had tagged me in it.

"I looked at it and thought "What the hell is this?". I looked Holly up and messaged her."

She added: "I was so disappointed whenever I realised there was a digit short. I sort of figured because I'm from Derry that there was no hope in hell that I'd ever find her."

Before finding Eden, Holly described the shock proposal to Dublin Live, revealing that she "didn't really have a clue that he was going to do it".

She said: "We were both standing there, he was just talking to me and then he grabbed both my hands and looked at me and I thought "no way".

"It was kind of like the whole place didn't really exist for five whole seconds. It just went dead silent. I said yes and we just heard everyone cheering and clapping."

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