Setting sail to travel the world as part of your job has a romance all of its own but for marketing manager Máire Cronin and engineer Mark Crowe it led to love.

On International Kissing Day we recall the kisses we best remember, writes Rita de Brún.

Befriending your ex’s new partner, while long taboo, is slowly becoming mainstream, writes Rita de Brún

Our love affair with love poetry’s as old as time and showing no signs of fading, writes Rita de Brún.

A new book explores the secret to a long lasting relationship – by asking couples that have spent decades together to share their love stories. Ciara McDonnell reports

As per its title, the crooner from Vancouver has described his tenth studio album as his “most romantic to date”.

And they say that romance is dead.

Anyone got a tissue?

We all love affection, and it can mean even more when a loving gesture eases a partner's physical difficulty.

Radio presenter and comedian, Doireann Garrihy, stuns on the cover of the July/August Irish Country Magazine, getting candid about her experience of bullying in school, being single and her long-term career ambitions.

We all dream of meeting our true love, and for some that dream has already come true

With the new season of the hit reality TV show already having one week under its’ belt we cast a look back to one of our favourite couples from last season - Camilla and Jamie.

Ireland’s romantic fiction writers tell Caomhán Keane about their favourite love-themed movies of all time

Ah, the first blind date.

The Late Late Show’s Valentine’s Special returns again this year and is searching for singletons once more, writes Sally Gorman.

My new girlfriend is fantastic in every way — apart from one. She uses really cutesy pet names for me in bed. I don’t want to embarrass her, but I find it so unsexy. It turns me off.

Blind love may leave you homeless was the underlying warning behind a judge’s remarks concerning ill-advised romantic engagements in business affairs.

Rita de Brún says it is cruel to call older women who date younger men ‘cougars’. They just want loving, fulfilling relationships.

Arlene Harris talks to three people who were prepared to move overseas in order to ensure they spent their lives together.

Wait... what?

Amy has been married to her husband, Jason, for 26 years and "was planning on at least another 26 together."

Spacer + tea addict = love?

“There’s an awful lot of lonely men and women out there.”

It's a ten from us, Declan!

Want to know the secret to a happy, life-long relationship? It’s simple – just be kind. Áilín Quinlan meets the Bensons, happily married for 30 years and counting.

Valentine’s Day may have become an excuse for commerciality and excess, but there is worse these days than having a day that celebrates love in whatever form.

Holding hands provides a sense of security, while a good hug boosts serotonin levels, writes Deirdre Reynolds.

You don’t have to spend Valentine’s in a restaurant paying a fortune for food when you could be having real fun with another activity, writes Paula Burns.

Ireland’s last matchmaker, Willie Daly, is taking his unique talents to the high seas next week as he attempts to bring love to those taking a lavish Caribbean Cruise.

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