Judge urges singleton to up game at Lisdoonvarna

A single man who ended up “empty-handed” at Lisdoonvarna match-making festival has been told “to go out there with more serious intent” next year.

Judge Patrick Durcan said Brian Sexton of Spanish Point, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, “was obviously unsuccessful in the object of his exercise at Lisdoonvarna on September 4 and has to face into a long winter. That is the reality”.

At Ennis District Court, he faced a charge of being drunk. Garda Insp Tom Kennedy said Mr Sexton “couldn’t stand, sit or talk” when Garda Ken Bulter came across him in the The Square at Lisdoonvarna on the first Sunday of the month-long festival.