Lovebirds flock to Irish matchmaking festival

(21 Sep 2019) IRELAND MATCHMAKING FESTIVAL SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only LENGTH: 6:11 ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland - 5 September 2019 1. Mid of Willie Daly, Matchmaker, walking 2. Mid of Daly standing at fence feeding donkeys 3. Close of sign, reading (English): "Welcome to Donkey Farm. Matchmaker and author Willie Daly." 4. Mid of Daly standing in kitchen holding tattered book and papers 5. Close of book and papers in Daly's hand 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Willie Daly, Matchmaker: "A computer can be very cold (laughs). And you can't go telling the computer you love them in a quick space anyway as well as with the person in your arms. What would be wrong about telling her five minutes after meeting her or asking her to marry you in the first five minutes or telling her you love her? That's how it is really in life, you know, instant love." 7. Close of framed black and white photo among other framed photos 8. Tilt up of framed old newspaper article 9. Wide of Daly sitting in kitchen looking at book 10. Mid of Daly reading pages of book 11. Close of hands turning pages with writing and photos 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Willie Daly, Matchmaker: "They actually come with a very good idea of finding happiness, finding love. And they might come with a huge amount, with their pockets full of love, you know, to give someone, to share someone, a heart full of love. So, they want to find someone to give that love to. And, of course, the big other side of that is that they want to be loved back as well." 13. Aerial shot of Lisdoonvarna ++MUTE++ 14. Wide of matchmaking festival poster and roadside, car drives by 15. Wide of cars driving down village main street 16. Wide of Matchmaker Bar exterior 17. Pan of couples dancing to live band while Daly stands on dance floor 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Carmel Whelan, Visitor to Lisdoonvarna from Doolin, County Clare: "Every business does well, like the shops are open late. There (are) hotels, bed and breakfasts outside the town. Everybody gets…pubs, there's music going on till three o'clock in the morning, taxis, everything, everybody does great business. So then that goes on for just four weeks, so come October, then it's a dead town. So, you should come back in October and just have another glance around in October when there's nothing happening (laughs)."   19. Wide of The Hydro Hotel exterior 20. Wide of couples dancing on dance floor 21. Mid of couples dancing on dance floor 22. Wide of Cecily and Albert Lawor, Regular Visitors to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival, sat in hotel lobby 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Cecily Lawlor and Albert Lawlor, Regular Visitors to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival: Albert: "It's absolutely.... you meet some wonderful people here... fabulous..." Cecily: "It's unique really, very unique... the atmosphere here, when the place is buzzing with people. And they all want to talk, they all want to sit down and talk to you and find out something about people, or the place, or the bands…there's something going the whole time." 24. Close of wedding photo 25. Close of old photos on smartphone UPSOUND (English) "That was the All Ireland Championship. We were 13 years married that night."   26. SOUNDBITE (English) Cecily Lawlor and Albert Lawlor, Regular Visitors to Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival: Albert: "There's a lot of people we have met here, I mean, over the years and we thought they were husband and wife." Cecily: "They weren't (laughs)." Cecily: "We don't know, we never asked, no…" 27. Wide of couples dancing 30. Wide of people dancing Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...