Love-struck men willing to pay above the odds for roses

TRUE love is priceless but not so if you want to buy a dozen red roses today, Valentine’s Day.

For the price of a bunch of the blooms today is €90 - up a whopping 60% on a month ago.

An Irish Examiner straw poll of 12 florists - in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford - a month ago revealed the average price of a dozen roses to be around €60.

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