Love may be in the air this week as Valentine’s Day looms, but Cork couple Caroline Curran and Seán Weir were lucky enough to have real-life versions of Cupid in the form of their pals.

For decades, they came from the highways and byways, seeking love and companionship — many of them bachelor farmers — but Cupid’s arrow has struck for the last time from the shrine at Knock, Co Mayo.

People tell you to live life in the present, but living for presents is much more fun. Toejam and Earl: Back in the Groove does both, by dragging an ancient classic into the modern day, with the primary gameplay hook being the collectible wrapped gifts that litter the colourful landscape.

But you’ll have to grab it fast as the limited edition flavour is only available exclusively from the Deliveroo app or website for one day only on February 14.

Operation Transformation host Kathryn Thomas joins Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show this Friday to talk about her big plans for 2018.

There’s no need to join the elf on the shelf this Christmas, says Deirdre Reynolds, who talks to dating experts about finding a mate during the festive season.

Love in a hopeless place!

I met a man this week in Galway City who was a close friend in summers way back then, when we were all young and free and footloose, and happy as the fabled Larry.

If you’ve been swiping through Tinder recently and spotted a profile that might be a perfect match for a friend, you can now act as a matchmaker and share that profile.

THE nation was glued as the latest television dating show kicked off on Channel 4 last night.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is appealing for information after a pair of puppies was left to die at the side of a road.

It’s set in modern Pennsylvania, but there’s an Old Testament quality to the imagery of fire in Out of the Furnace (15A).

THE movie Bridget Jones’s Diary is on TV again tonight.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a messiah.

A popular postie has revealed how he found love on the double while delivering the post on his allocated round in north Co Dublin.

Love will be in the air as artists pour their hearts in to a very special Valentine’s date night.

NATASHA GALSTAUN, a 43-year-old former interior designer turned stay-at-home mum, stated in a weekend broadsheet recently that, “running a home is just like running a multi-national”.

There are 29 men for every woman west of the Shannon, so Deirdre Reynolds decided to head to ... Lisdoonvarna, of course!

Be careful what you wish for.

Russell Brand fell in love with Katy Perry the moment she hit him over the head with a plastic bottle.

Scottish singer Paolo Nutini played Cupid at a recent show when he proposed to a fan in the audience on behalf of her boyfriend.

IF Jennifer Bell’s parents had met first, she might never have been born.

James Fanshawe’s Cesare tops a field of eight for the totesport.com Celebration Mile at Goodwood on Saturday.

RUBY WALSH, fresh from a spectacular six-timer at the Paddy Power Cheltenham Open meeting, wasted no time getting among the winners back on home soil at a sparsely attended Limerick yesterday.

Marcus Tregoning has warned followers of his Vodafone Derby winner Sir Percy to hold their bets on the colt for the Irish equivalent on July 2.

Racing Post Trophy winner Palace Episode has been supplemented for the Derby at a cost of £8,000 (€11,500).

Palace Episode produced a 20-1 surprise in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster.

Mark Johnston revealed Winged Cupid is back to full fitness ahead of the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster on Saturday.

If the pink glitz of Jordan and Peter Andre’s tack-fest wedding ceremony was all just too much for you, there are two people to point the finger at.

WOMEN with one eye on the altar are expected to spring into action at the end of this month to avail of the tradition that allows females to propose to their partners during a Leap Year.

IQ is a chance to see Albert Einstein in a whole new light, playing Cupid for his niece Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan) and mechanic Ed Walters (Tim Robbins).

Simon Cowell, the British judge whose scathing comments about the performers on the talent show American Idol have made him a pop culture icon, is putting his own talents up to be judged with his new show Cupid.

TV bosses in the UK have launched a search for the ideal woman today to star in Simon Cowell’s new dating show.