This article is from page 8 of the 2013-11-26 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 8 JPG
IRELAND’S last matchmaker, Willie Daly, is entering the modern age and will begin to use Twitter to bring lovers together from next week. The Lisdoonvarna love doctor, who will celebrate his 70th birthday next year, says he has completed a com- puter course and will start tweeting love tips to his followers as soon as he figures out how to work Twitter. A Twitter account at “TheLastMatchmaker” was created for Mr Daly last week and he says he will begin to Tweet messages to his followers as soon as possible. “I did a computer course before but my daughter was there helping me all along. I’m not very good with computers but I’m going to get some help with this [Twitter] and I should be up and running in about a week,” he said yesterday. “I’m sure I’ll have lots of things to say to people. I’ve think, over the last number of year, I have been missing out by not being involved [with the internet and social media]. Twitter seems to be the best way of talking to people – it seems to be better that Facebook from what I can see anyway. So I’m excited about doing it. Twitter seems to be the most modern one of them [social media sites]. So, if I’m going to get involved at this stage I might as well go for the most modern one. “Who knows the amount of unknown romances that I might be able to create for the people of the world on Twitter. I think I’ll also be able to get people into a more romantic mood and to help people in that way.” Willie Daly has been matchmaking at the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival for more then 50 years. Over the years he claims to have brought together thousands of couples and claims responsibility for hundreds of marriages.