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Emma Collins, Mallow, Co Cork, and Martin Kennedy, Dingle, Co Kerry, are wed in the Church of the Resurrection, Mallow, with reception in the Great Southern Killarney

Emma Collins and Martin Kennedy. Pictures: Dermotsullivan.com

Emma Collins jokes that her first encounter with Martin Kennedy across a Cork city bar counter may not have been a case of “love at first sight”.

Why on earth not? Emma, a nurse, believes her talkative nature could have been off-putting for Martin, an accountant. “I had gone back to study as a mature student at 26, and got a part-time job in Ryan’s pub on North Main St,” she says.