ROMANCE is helping keep the heritage picture postcard village of Adare sweet and rosy in the depths of the recession.

THE hand of Thierry Henry delivered a romantic consolation to Irish international striker, Kevin Doyle, yesterday when he married his teenage sweetheart, Jenny Harney, at the Holy Trinity Abbey Church in Adare.

FROM the Hand of Gaul to a hand in marriage, Ireland’s World Cup exit has proved to be the proverbial ill-wind for Kevin Doyle.