Hit and miss with blind date matches

Blind dates arranged by agencies are popular with people who are too busy to socialise, but what’s a match in a computer database may not be in real life, says Roisin Burke.

BLIND Dates are popular with people too busy to sort out their love lives. Intro is a Dublin dating agency. It is run by the engaged couple, Rena Maycock and Feargal Harrington, who met through Feargal’s brother, Owen.

Owen and Rena have been friends since childhood, and Rena had met Feargal once, but it was only as adults that sparks began to fly. “The first time I met Feargal was at birthday party, when I was 15, and he was Owen’s snotty little brother,” Rena said. “When I met him years later, it was a nice surprise that we hit it off.”