Dating In Ireland

It was 2003 when we "Winked" at each other and we started corresponding via the site Anotherfriend.com. We decided to meet in O'Connell St in Toddys Bar for Lunch. Our first date lasted a total nine hours. We went our seperate ways and I got back together with my ex two days later. Then a week past and I got a text from Mark asking me on another date. I was gutted. I really thought he wasn't interested lol. I agreed to go to the pictures but only as friends. So three months past with us being friends, within in those first two months I broke up with my ex again and Mark & I stayed just friends. After 4 weeks of being friends we decided to see if there was anything between us. So August 8th 2003 we started dating. Now 12 years later we have two amazing kids and we got married June 2015. I can honestly say he is my best friend. I think the fact that we became friends first has stood to us. Neither one of us is what you would call "social butterflies". We dont go out much and he was from the west of Dublin and I was from North County Dublin so the chances of us meeting was very slim. So without Anotherfriend.com we would probably never have met. Thank you so much AnotherFriend.com

Recently we have received one of those lovely stories that allows us to stay positive and bring joy to every Team Member.

My name is Stephen and my now wife is Norma. We were both on your site between 2006 to 2008. I was corkman1 and she was ladyincork we meet thanks to your site March 2008 and it was soon to become love and even marriage.

Many thanks to you and your team!

It's funny really that we're telling our story about how we met because I had decided not to renew my subscription on the site as I felt it wasn't working. However, I was at home one night a few days after it had run out and I decided to sign up for one more month and give it a go. That weekend I spotted Alan on the site and his photo looked nice so I sent him a wink and see what happened. Well it paid off because he contacted me back and the rest as they say is history'

It's four years since we met, our first date was December 4th 2006. We had been chatting on site for a few weeks and swapped phone numbers and arranged to meet for coffee. However, I had to cancel twice as things came up so I thought Alan wouldn't want to know me but luckily he did and when we did have our first date it was great. It started with a coffee and we ended up going for dinner and then Alan dropped me home. Our second date came a few days later, when he picked me up from the train station in Dublin after a work party in Wexford and we spent the day together. It just felt right and progressed from that. I moved in after 18 months in June 2008.Then we got engaged in March 2009 and married in August 2010. I'm really glad I did renew my membership after all because if I hadn't I'd never had met Alan and we wouldn't have this great story to tell!

We met on July 22nd. It was the night of the member night out in Cork so it was the perfect chance to meet as we had been chatting on the site for about 3 weeks. However, we nearly didn't meet that night as Jenna was waiting for me downstairs in the bar and I was upstairs at the event so when she finally came up after a while I was very relieved as I was starting to think I had been stood up! It was worth the wait though as we got on great and chatted all night and I knew then it was right. After that we went on another date and we are very very happy. It's just over 4 months now since we met and we are moving in together. I see a lot for us in the future. I don't believe in jumping into marriage so it's important to see how things go but I'm here for good and that's for sure.

I'm a very picky person when it comes to men. It's not looks, it's not money, it's something I know when I find it. I'm a very outgoing, confident 25 year old girl, I'm not hideous nor socially inept and I've done the whole pub scene to meet guys, it just doesn't work for me. When I go out I'm out to have fun with my friends, not to spend hours chatting to random men. I think many men are the same and the more drinks that are involved the worse we represent ourselves. I feel it's much better to meet someone at a dinner party or at a sports club/gym but that doesn't present a huge amount of opportunities.

Therefore I decided to expand my horizons by joining AnotherFriend.com. After a month of browsing and sending and receiving messages, I had given my number to a handful of few guys but in the end I decided only to meet one. Our first date was at Oxegen (I'm adventurous and thought it would be fun!) and I'm happy to say that it was a good choice of date; 8 months later and we're extremely happy.

If I was given a euro for every time I have been asked "How did you know he wasn't an axe murderer" I would be a millionaire but I think this comes down to the fact that the people who ask me this haven't tried online dating and therefore have this false perception of what it is. I can't understand what it is that people find so different about online dating; at the end of the day it's just another way of meeting someone and if you ask me it's a hell of a lot more effective than doing so in the pub, where alcohol is more often than not involved and can make you see things in a very different light than you would without it!

I can honestly say my time on AnotherFriend.com has been 100% worth it. John is from Kerry and had never been to Dublin before we met. It just happened that he was moving here for work but one thing we are both sure of is that we would never have met if we hadn't decided to go online.

Some people say that you can't tell if there's good chemistry if you meet someone online but here's the thing; no one's suggesting you keep the relationship on the internet, the internet is the starting point and after that, you arrange to meet and talk and date like any 'normal' date! Many people have this perception that internet dating is only for older people or those who are "desperate"; well I am the proof of the pudding that that is not the case, I'm neither old nor desperate and am very glad I tried internet dating.

With nothing to lose and confidence, fun, and interesting conversation and dates or even perhaps a relationship to gain, I'd definitely recommend AnotherFriend.com to any single person out there looking to meet someone. You will never know unless you try so give it a go and see for yourself!

I had been separated for about 8 years, and had done the whole pub scene, but you kind of get past that stage. So I gave up and concentrated on rearing my three children. But a friend of mine was on a couple of dating sites and told me to give it a go even for just a bit of fun ' So even though the thoughts it made me very nervous as I really didn't know what to expect, I thought to myself 'What have I to lose?' and gave it a go and chatted with a few and even went on a few dates!

After a while on the site, I met Mark. We chatted on the site and then on the phone for weeks and I really got to like his sense of humour, he was good for cracking a joke, which I liked. Finally, after 4 months, we decided to arrange to meet. I was very nervous as he had never married or had any kids so on our first date I felt I had to put myself across a bit better than a single girl would need to, so I did what any girl would do... talk!!! He couldn't get a word in edgeways with me. I won't lie, when I first saw him I wasn't bowled over and will admit, he wouldn't be my typical type-tall dark and handsome. But we went for a bite to eat and after a while I thought to myself, you know what, he's a lovely guy ' but sometimes lovely is boring so I still wasn't 100% convinced. I know that sounds so stupid now!

We had such a laugh on our date, he had such a great sense of humour, just like he was online, so witty and quick. It drew me to him. We met again 3 weeks later for another date and that night I felt, this is it!!

Online dating was so refreshing for me as I could be completely honest. I felt once somebody knew my family and work situation and was still willing to meet up, then we had overcome any barriers that wouldn't have so easily overcome in a pub.

I would certainly say to anyone that hasn't tried online dating to absolutely give it a go. I had genuinely given up and never for a minute expected to meet, never mind marry, another man so I think that says it all.

This is a photo of myself and Anna, at our wedding in Italy about 30 miles North of Rome on November 5th last.

We met on anotherfriend.com 3 years ago. We emailed each other for a couple of months before meeting. She was in Dublin and I in Wexford, we started off our email relationship saying that we would never meet, so that we could be completely honest and ask those 'awkward' questions that you could ask a stranger but wouldn't ask your friends!

We eventually met and me being a stickler for safety insisted that I pick her up at her parents house and I showed her my driving licence to prove that I was who I said I was!

We dated for about 11 months and I asked her to marry me just a few weeks after we decided to buy a house together, she thankfully said yes!! We think ourselves incredibly fortunate to have found each other and a huge, immense thank you has to go to anotherfriend.com for helping us!

We were both looking through the site for possible partners. She went through the "Quick Match" and my "wonderful" picture came up. We started sending emails and then long phone conversations. She went over to Ireland shortly after and we lost touch until she came back several weeks later. We met shortly thereafter and on Thanksgiving Day I proposed to her and she accepted. We were married on June 19th. It's all because of AF!

I joined another friend in 2003 and met many nice people and friends. I got an email of nice gay and we mailed for a while I remember he asked me to meet him and I turned him down as it was my Dads 50th Bday and we were having a family dinner.

We arranged to meet several times and with one thing or another it just never happened so after three weeks We finally got to meet on the 31st of Oct 2004 it was Halloween and we arranged to meet for lunch it was a sunday Htut was living in Dublin at the time and me in Portlaoise so he said he would come down on the train.

I remember when he got of the train he handed me roses in a lovely blue bag from M&S we want for lunch to our local hotel in portloise and we got on really well I never thought that anything would never come of it.
Htut lived in Dublin and worked up there so to meet up during the week it was hard so we started to spend weekends together.
I introduced him to my family on News Yrs day 2004 when I brought him to my parents for dinner.

In March 05 he moved down to Partlaoise to be with me, he travelled to work daily by train.
Htut proposed to me in April 05 and I accepted and we married on the 20th Oct 06 and have being very Happy every since.
I never thought in my life I could meet anyone on the internet and marry them and be so Happy.

AnotherFriend really does work!