Outside of her profession, Nikki is motorcycle mad and is looking for someone to \u2018ground her\u2019\n<\/p>\n
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Nikki will look for love on First Dates Ireland. Picture courtesy of RT\u00c9<\/p>\n
Garda Nikki is the latest Cork representative on this season\u2019s First Dates Ireland.<\/p>\n
Nikki, aged 40, is going into the episode with no expectations but hopes her date doesn\u2019t hail from Donegal and doesn\u2019t ask if she brought her handcuffs on the date.<\/p>\n
Outside of her profession, Nikki is motorcycle mad and is looking for someone to \u201cground her.\u201d<\/p>\n
She is paired with Mullingar man and fellow petrolhead Emmett, aged 42.<\/p>\n
The care assistant admits that he smiles like a Cheshire cat if he is attracted to a woman \u2013 but will they get each other\u2019s motor running?<\/p>\n
![\"Emmett](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5cca65da-c41c-435a-b047-8315baf31e67.jpg\")
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Emmett and Nikki.
\nPicture: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Doyle, aged 30 from Dublin returns for a second helping of First Dates Ireland and is looking for someone \u201cas hot as himself.\u201d<\/p>\n
He is matched with Brazilian marketing executive, Enisio, aged 36, who\u2019s based in Dublin and just back from a week-long gay cruise.<\/p>\n
Doyle has entered his \u201cclosed legs era\u201d but how long will that last when these two muscle-top wearing men come together?<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Laois man Elliott, aged 26, is matched with fellow Midlander Bria, aged 25 from Offaly, who once did the Camino to \u201cfind herself\u201d but returned empty-handed.<\/p>\n
Elliott is keen to showcase his unique style outside of the confines of his hometown and Bria, who has the tendency to overthink her dates, has already imagined every possible disaster.<\/p>\n
What happens next is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n
Finally, Emma, aged 21, from Limerick is matched with James, aged 21, from Louth, who doesn\u2019t drink coffee because he has enough energy as it is.<\/p>\n
Emma tends to go for \u201cthe loudest guy in the room\u201d who has the confidence to rock a \u2018tache.<\/p>\n
Will James be the one?<\/p>\n
First Dates Ireland broadcasts on RT\u00c92 at 9:35pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside of her profession, Nikki is motorcycle mad and is looking for someone to \u2018ground her\u2019 Nikki will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,16345,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-388354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-martin-mongan","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388354","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=388354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}