{"id":295675,"date":"2026-02-13T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295675\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:18:09","slug":"college-sweethearts-who-actually-went-the-distance-and-what-their-stories-reveal-about-making-love-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295675\/","title":{"rendered":"College sweethearts who actually went the distance \u2013 and what their stories reveal about making love last"},"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\">With Valentine\u2019s Day on the horizon, Kirsty Blake Knox speaks to couples who found romance after meeting in university and finds out why that formed a solid foundation for a long relationship<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eoin O'Neill and Yvette Poufong met in DCU and have been together ever since. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GM Eoin Yvette 007.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)\">Eoin O&#8217;Neill and Yvette Poufong met in DCU and have been together ever since. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">Collegiate settings have often been the backdrop for romance in films, TV and books \u2013 be it Normal People, One Day or Legally Blonde.  There are many reasons why some people meet their significant other in between lectures and freshers mixers.<\/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)\">To begin with, you are suddenly exposed to a whole new social circle and are spending hours with classmates studying or, in some cases, avoiding study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Valentine\u2019s Day on the horizon, Kirsty Blake Knox speaks to couples who found romance after meeting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,1481],"class_list":["post-295675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}