{"id":89819,"date":"2025-09-28T00:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/89819\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:21:11","slug":"inside-lisdoonvaras-matchmaking-festival-its-rough-and-ready-but-i-wouldnt-swap-it-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/89819\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Lisdoonvara\u2019s Matchmaking Festival \u2013 \u2018It\u2019s rough and ready, but I wouldn\u2019t swap it for the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The West Clare town may have moved with the times, but there is still plenty of old world charm and magic in the air every September for this unique gathering of single men and women\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social dancers outside the Ritz Hotel, Lisdoonvarna, Clare. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/21544351-0494-4dbe-b204-f6f189fe9898.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Social dancers outside the Ritz Hotel, Lisdoonvarna, Clare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If you asked someone where Europe\u2019s largest singles festival might be located, you could probably forgive them if their first answer wasn\u2019t Lisdoonvara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The small spa town in West Clare is home to less than 1,000 people yet tens of thousands of singles are welcomed each year for its annual Matchmaking Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West Clare town may have moved with the times, but there is still plenty of old world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,21321],"class_list":{"0":"post-89819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-joseph-murray"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}