{"id":391401,"date":"2026-04-10T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:52:18","slug":"cork-man-dreams-of-dating-someone-so-hot-that-people-think-hes-very-rich-or-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391401\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork man dreams of dating someone &#8216;so hot&#8217; that people think he&#8217;s &#8216;very rich or funny&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A Cork man who admits he has never uttered the words \u2018I love you\u2019 tries to change that when he appears on  First Dates Ireland next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Jack, 27, claims to be a \u2018nice, easy- going person\u2019 who \u2019loves love\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Enter Marion, 28, from Limerick, who is so bad at dating that her friends have formed a group chat to vet her choices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Both are looking for a long-term relationship, which will be quite a change for Jack, who dreams of dating someone \u2018so hot\u2019 that people assume he\u2019s either \u2018very rich or very funny\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Also in  First Dates Ireland on RT\u00c92 on Thursday at 9.35pm, retired business owner Garry, 76, from Wexford returns to the restaurant after a romantic dry spell, happy to settle for \u2018like\u2019 at first sight. But he is instantly smitten by super-glamorous divorcee Elizabeth, 65, from Glasnevin, who is hoping for someone tall, \u201cgrey\u201d, and handsome to make her laugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Bubbly Amelia, 24, of Kildare, comes to the restaurant with a sunny disposition in search of a \u2018beautiful (relationship-ready) cowboy\u2019 and meets former door-to-door salesman and \u2018serial extrovert\u2019 Chris, 25, from Dublin, who\u2019s determined to \u2018shut up and listen\u2019 for a change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Hoping for a \u2018rough and ready country lad\u2019, self-confessed \u2018daddy\u2019s girl\u2019 Eilish, 22, of Carlow, meets tractor-obsessed Adam, 23, from Offaly. Both are looking for someone outside the M50 and bond over \u2018fancy menus\u2019 and a shared love of machinery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cork man who admits he has never uttered the words \u2018I love you\u2019 tries to change that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-391401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391401","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=391401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}