Sparks fly at Cork Airport as electrician proposes in arrivals

Sparks were flying at Cork Airport yesterday when an electrician, home for Christmas, dropped down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend waiting for him in arrivals.

Eoin McDermott popped the question in the arrivals hall just moments after returning home from work in Saudi Arabia, asking his girlfriend of six years, Emer O’Shea, to marry him.

“He texted me to say the plane had landed, and then, when he came through the arrivals gate we had a hug and a kiss, and then he got down on one knee and said he had something to ask me,” Emer said.