Why do you visit Lisdoonvarna? Co. Clare, Ireland 1975

With its vibrant matchmaking festival and famous spa waters, Lisdoonvarna in County Clare is going from strength to strength.
There is something for everybody at Lisdoonvarna in County Clare. Its authenticity is a draw for young and old alike with some saying the atmosphere is better than comparable festivals held in Listowel and Puck.
It’s a great place entirely, they only thing is we haven’t the chance of going to bed at all.
The town’s main tourist season is in September when other resorts are winding down. At peak season Lisdoonvarna’s population rises from 700 to 7,000.
Many visitors to Lisdoonvarna come for the sulphur-rich spa water. Once popular with the Victorian gentry, taking the waters remains a big attraction. In addition to the baths, a sauna, massage and beauty treatments are also available.
It all adds up to an impressive faith in future of the spa itself, as well as Lisdoonvarna.
Lisdoonvarna also has its romantic reputation to uphold and alongside the spa there is a vibrant matchmaking festival.
More marriages they say are made here than in heaven.
Some men revisiting Lisdoonvarna remain resolute in their quest to find wives.
We’re not going home empty handed either.
A ‘Newsround’ report broadcast on 28 September 1975. The reporter is Seán Duignan.

[@10urquhart]

The matchmakers, we need them to come back, better than tinder

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

After watching this I am off to Lisdoonvarna in the morning to drink the waters I will also take a full years supply back home with me, it is important to keep my complexion looking young and with glowing colour even at my age of 96 years young/

[@ogstopper]

My uncle and aunt met at Lisdoonvarna!! As an aside, I have looked, looked and looked again at 1:57 to 3:00 and from 4:27 to 4:56. The man looks like and sounds EXACTLY like my father did!

[@edmundpower1250]

Well don't keep us in suspense... Is it him??

[@hangedups2608]

LOVE THE OLD FELLA OBSESSED WITH THE WATER

[@ciaranmac646]

😂😂😂 The two married lads caught out by the camera at 0:34 😂😂😂

[@JDLeonard74]

It's a real remedy, this man I know in his 80's. He makes this distilled water that has an alkalinity of 9.5 Cleans out your blood and digestion and everything.

[@MsRichycon]

Yess this is superseded to the max Is there still spars there today? Electric baths are ment to good for you too

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

I can confirm that is true it cleans out your blood and digestion, venial and mortal sins, everything, it makes you shiny brand new.

[@adrianc1264]

people have no idea that tap water - the world over - has toxins added to it which poison and cause illness. Sounds paranoid, I know. There's very simple tests available which prove this. The waters here have magnesium and iron which the brain needs to function optimally and which are diminished by environmental toxins

[@Galwaybhoy]

Wow I just spotted my uncle on this dancing, that's insane

[@user-lx5ue4wm5k]

Old guy talking is a ventriloquist

[@eddie12454]

''We've beaten Harrogate upside-down" Wow!

[@evelyndiver1383]

They had a great time xx

[@noelmaher4633]

With those fine heads of hair, could have their pick of any woman today..😆.

[@edmundpower1250]

It's not what's on the head that matters but what's in the mind that counts

[@marydonohoe8200]

Was this wonderful old guy Niall Toibin’s father?

[@jimosullivan4866]

Denis the Beatle o' Sullivan , 1983 Rip

[@Irishbeermonk]

0:25 that young fella delighted he got Stifflers mammy

[@darienhigh]

The old dude speaks without moving his lips

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

dont call my great-great grandfather a dude, his full name was Thomas, Aquinas, Ignatius, Valentine, Aloysius Coyne-Keaney

[@darienhigh]

@@jamesbradshaw3389 heh

[@marydonohoe8200]

Ah, but you can still understand everything he says-and I’m American!

[@peterdoyle1591]

There was nothing wrong with matchmakers. They were highly skilled and knew better than anybody who was a good match. You wouldn't get to be a matchmaker unless you had a very high success rate which in actual fact they had. As you can imagine it was a very serious business jokes aside.

[@thet1375]

Your opinion holds little value BUDDY

[@RRS8840]

The US could learn a lot from y,all!

[@connoroleary591]

What's the big deal about "match makers". Nobody smokes now and those that do use lighters. Some comments mention "Tinder" but that's no use as tinder burns too quickly to be anything else but a fire hazard.

[@alarmerads]

Skälet är att det var en del av vägen till huvudmålet Doolin, Irlands musikmekka

[@animallover19581]

A dumb yank, asked a guard in Lisdoonvarna could you tell me what time do the pubs close here. 1st of October was the Gardas reply. 🍺🥃🍺🍻🍺🍺🍻 Slainte.

[@hilltop521]

Must be 45 years ago simple times iodine mixed with water people that time would believe anything