{"id":299836,"date":"2026-02-15T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299836\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:06:08","slug":"cork-singleton-richie-woos-dublin-pole-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299836\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork singleton Richie woos Dublin pole dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A charming pharmaceutical worker from Cork is hoping the chemistry will be right when he appears on  First Dates Ireland.\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Richie, 33, is desperately seeking a \u2018plus one\u2019 for the many weddings he has been invited to \u2013 one of which is happening the very next day\u2026 let\u2019s hope he is a fast mover!<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">His date for the episode on RT\u00c92 on Thursday at 9.35pm is competitive pole dancer Michaela, also 33, of Dublin, who says she is looking for a \u2018man\u2019s man\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Also on First Dates Ireland, shy single dad Martin, 51, embarks on his first ever date with Linda, 40, from Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Unashamedly \u2018looking for a wife\u2019 larger than life site foreman James (23) from Clondalkin matches with Fayth (21) from East Wall. Fayth always takes her mammy\u2019s advice on men so \u2018one bad vibe and there\u2019s no going back\u2019. James falls short of her 6ft height requirement but makes up for it with his \u2018f-ing lethal\u2019 personality. All of which leads to a VERY big surprise \u2013 and a first-of-its-kind announcement for First Dates!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After six months single in Dublin, Itzel from Mexico is looking for a hot date with dark hair and blue eyes. Enter: the woman of her dreams: super confident lioness Ciara from Kilkenny. They say you should avoid politics on a first date but the fiery combination of Itzel\u2019s native American heritage and Ciara\u2019s background in political science means that, suddenly, everything\u2019s on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A charming pharmaceutical worker from Cork is hoping the chemistry will be right when he appears on First&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-299836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299836","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=299836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}