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Courting: A warm observation on looking for love in the countryside

Isolation, long hours, early mornings, farm inheritance – journalist Liadán Hynes touchingly reveals the struggles faced by those searching for romance in Ireland’s fields of dreams

Liadán Hynes: the journalist has sniffed out the real stories behind the Tinder screen and come up with a set of authentic tales from our country heartlands. Picture: Kip Carroll

The road to true love never ran smooth, but when muddy fields and valuable road frontage are involved, the going can get extra tough. Courting is a warm, funny and touching look at, well, courting in rural Ireland. Journalist Liadán Hynes has sniffed out the real stories behind the Tinder screen and come up with a set of authentic tales from our country heartlands.

She first looks at the people of the land – farming ...