Liadán Hynes: Loneliness is one thing people find hard to talk about. There’s a stigma around it.

Online dating is often seen as the preserve of metropolitan singles, but it has opened up a whole new world for those looking for love in rural Ireland, bringing with it a different set of challenges

Liadán Hynes did two years of research for her book ‘Courting: Tractor Date, Macra Babies and Swiping Right in Rural Ireland’. Picture: Kip Carroll

• Courting: Tractor Dates, Macra Babies and Swiping Right in Rural Ireland
• Liadán Hynes
• New Island, €16.95