Sharing personal information with strangers to gain new followers is a risk teenagers are taking on an app with similar features to Tinder.

During Patrick Nevin's trial for sexually assaulting a Brazilian student he met on Tinder at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last winter the jury heard details of text message exchanges between Nevin and the victim.

A woman raped by a convicted sex offender who she met online has told a court she thought she would die during the attack.

Irish entertainer Graham Norton has discussed his use of the dating app Tinder, describing it as "a great thing".

And they say that romance is dead.

Roisin Burke examines a suite of new apps that aren’t just for people looking for a romantic hookup — friendship apps, social media for mums, and business link-ups are all growing in popularity.

Manchester City have got into bed with dating app Tinder in a multi-year, multi-million-pound partnership.

A man has been jailed for five years for a sexual assault on a woman he met on the Internet dating programme Tinder.

It’s never been easier to hook up online but starting a relationship is another matter. Steve Neville, Cillian Sherlock and Greg Murphy share their experiences

Being naive and foolish doesn’t give anybody the right to sexually assault you, a lawyer has told the jury in the trial of a man accused of attacking a woman he met on Tinder.

A woman who alleges a man she met through Tinder attacked her in a car said she thought he was going to rape her, a court has heard.

A man has gone on trial charged with the sexual assault of a woman he met on Tinder.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a man accused of raping a woman he met on Tinder told Gardaí they had consensual sex.

A man has gone on trial accused of raping a Tinder date in the Dublin Mountains in September 2014.

The world's last male northern white rhino has joined the Tinder dating app as wildlife experts make a last-ditch breeding effort to keep his species alive.

Macra Na Feirme is the Tinder of rural Ireland, according to the new President Cork man James Healy.

He's just not that into you…

Hey, you're pretty, will you buy me dinner?

People who find themselves in uncomfortable situations on dates are being given a discreet way to summon help.

Suzi Godson says that older men tend to converge on profiles of good-looking women aged 20 to 24.

You thought the relationship was going well, until your partner disappeared. Welcome to the cruel world of modern dating, says Deirdre Reynolds.

Women get to make the first move with new generation of dating apps, writes Deirdre Reynolds.

Tinder is making changes and they are good ones.

It has all the ingredients of an epic story and it doesn’t disappoint.

Ireland's last traditional matchmaker is urging people looking for love to turn off Tinder and head to Lisdoonvarna.

We don’t know how she does it but she makes hairless cat loving Justine sound like a match.

We’re in the midst of a “dating apocalypse,” if one is to believe a recent article by Vanity Fair journalist Nancy Jo Sales, a terrible time in which apps like Tinder have disrupted the basic nature of human courtship and turned us all into sex-crazed commitment-phobes.

Dating app Tinder may be a strange place to find the face of Drugs Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, but one user decided he’d have a better chance of scoring with the opposite sex if he used a picture of the Labour TD.

The mother of a student who has been missing since he was swept into the sea at Baltimore, Co Cork, last week has made an emotional appeal for more divers to help find her son; Search and recovery teams looking for missing Barry Davis Ryan hope that an improvement in weather conditions this week will lead to a breakthrough in their efforts. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

"I would marry you like a shot if you were a slip of a girl."

Sorry guys, you can stop swiping.

An “epidemic” of sexually transmitted diseases in the US has been blamed on hook-up apps like Tinder and Grindr.