WATCH: Cork couple celebrates surprise St Patrick's Day parade proposal

'The proposal was a complete shock. I was just all prepared for the parade.'

Manasi, who works at the APC Microbiome in UCC, met Lorenzo, who is an operations manager with a logistics company, just a few months after moving here in 2019.

The luck of the Irish rubbed off on a Sicilian man who swept his Indian girlfriend off her feet with a proposal as they took part in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Cork.  

Manasi Nadkarni was performing with the Aatma Indian dance troupe when her boyfriend Lorenzo Zanca popped the all-important question just seconds after sweeping her off her feet in a moment which she believed was part of the dance routine.