Valentine's Day: 28, single, and looking for love... so, where do I find a date?

Valentine's Day is all well and good if you're in a happy relationship, but what if you're a party of one, because you haven't found THE one? 28-year-old Emily Crowley tries three methods to find a date. Here's how she got on. 

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A couple of weeks ago, somebody mentioned Valentine’s Day to me and it made me realise I had taken the foot off the gas a bit when it came to my dating life in recent months.

Then again, when I think about the dating scene as it currently stands, I realise that the gas pedal I refer to is attached to a 1950s Morris Minor trying to make it up Cork’s Patrick’s Hill with 100km/h headwinds.