Love letters to St Valentine

The relics of St Valentine form a shrine to romance in Whitefriar St church in Dublin. The visitors’ book is filled every six weeks with people’s hopes and requests for love, says Barbara Scully

THERE is a bridal shop across the road from the Carmelite church on Whitefriar St, in Dublin’s city centre.

This is either a happy coincidence or a deliberate choice of location by the shop owner.