With modern day technology offering up apps like Tinder, Bumble and Grindr, are we any better off in the romance department? Do these virtual fast lanes to companionship actually help us? Or do they hinder us? 377.6 million people worldwide use online dating sites or apps. It’s estimated that one in every four relationships now begins online and with over 200,000 Irish people on Tinder, it’s easy to see why. As well as that, the popularity of ‘First Dates Ireland’ could be a sign that Irish people seem to be more interested in actual dates as oppose to a drink down the pub. So is it the ease of the hook up via Tinder that has strangled our dating culture or did Ireland ever have a dating culture to begin with? Or are we better off to stick to the traditional way of meeting that special someone altogether? Louise Casey investigates...

Music used: 
Royalty Free Audio Library on Youtube
Free Music Archive No Copyright

Parisien Accordian Lovesong
Ikson - Paradise
Tevo - Vexento

This documentary was created in part with my Final Year Media Project in the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2018.

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