{"id":9988,"date":"2025-08-19T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9988\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:16:07","slug":"couple-who-met-on-first-dates-announce-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9988\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple who met on First Dates announce engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two former First Dates Ireland contestants have shared the news of their engagement, four years after meeting for the first time on the dating show.<\/p>\n<p>Ginine Power and Andrew Martin were matched for a first date on the show in August 2021, and their date was aired in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Following a successful first date, the pair opted to see each other again and now, four years later, have said yes to forever together.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"data-instgrm-captioned\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNdWpb-okyo\/?igsh=MXJ2aGZhb3oxenkyMg==?utm_source=ig_embed\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">The pair shared a video post on Instagram and TikTok, which showed them sitting in the hot seat following their first date at the restaurant, where they were asked if they would like to see each other again romantically, and then skipped on to the clip of Martin popping the question to Power in Knocknarea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4748478_6_articleinlinemobile_First_20Dates_20Ireland_20series_207_20episode_203_20-Ginine-_26-Andre.jpeg\" alt=\"Ginine and Andrew on First Dates Ireland back in 2021.\" title=\"Ginine and Andrew on First Dates Ireland back in 2021.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Ginine and Andrew on First Dates Ireland back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In the caption, Power wrote: \u201c07\/08\/2021 \u2018Do you want to see each other again? 07\/08\/2025 \u2018Will you marry me?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tagging RT\u00c9 in the caption of the post shared on TikTok, she wrote: \u201cTwo of the best \u2018yeses\u2019 I\u2019ve ever said. Never thought this would happen when I applied for the show.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Comments of congratulations and well wishes poured in on social media following the news, with RT\u00c9 also chiming in to offer their congratulations to the happy couple.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two former First Dates Ireland contestants have shared the news of their engagement, four years after meeting for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4488,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-9988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-irish-examiner-instagram","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","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=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}