Desperate parents are splashing nearly €800 on gift cards for a top Irish dating service in a bid to find their single children love this Christmas. Intro Matchmaking’s Feargal Harrington chats with Ciara Phelan of the Irish Mirror about this and a few other dating tidbits

At Intro, we have always prided ourselves on the very core of our service: verifiable, real people being matched with other verifiable, real people. Now, in our fully refurbished Grafton Street location, our offices have grown to match the growth in our membership; a membership of genuine singletons who have had enough of the false promise of dating apps.

Not long after we started INTRO Matchmaking, we started to see a pattern emerging of far more professional women calling us than professional men. Naturally, we wondered why and here’s what we discovered.

Dating in Ireland can be quite the tricky endeavour. While most people value relationships that are based on chemistry, some don’t invest their real selves into their relationships at all, preferring for a so-called fantasy bond