Denis Lehane: Valentine’s landing plan still up in air

Well, you can’t get away with anything these days. My plans of Russian love are at an end. The plight of single, rural men continues.

Two weeks ago, I undertook what will probably go down in history as one of the most audacious plans ever attempted in trying to solve the great problem of rural isolation.

Ably assisted by none other than Vladimir Putin himself, our plan was to fly-in 360, single Russian ladies to the west coast of Ireland.