When it comes to the ultimate Flashback Friday content, you can't beat RTÉ Archives and this week they're bringing us back to a story which caused many a water-cooler moment: A shortage of single women in Kerry.
Have a look back at this 1997 Nationwide report on the lack of single women in county Kerry.
Unlike the capitol, in some parts of Kerry at the time, men outnumbered women by four to one. We're sure there are many single ladies who wish that was the ratio currently in Dublin!
Loving the honesty of these students from Tralee Regional Technical College who are none too impressed with a lack of women in the area, when they are socialising at the weekend. Not least of all because its puts more pressure on them to attract the attention of the single ladies who are in the county.
According to the news reporter, "the lack of single women has...reached crisis point". There was a serious side to all this at the time, and perhaps there still is, as Fr Gearoid O Donnchadha pointed out. He said that rural farming and areas were suffering unless new couples and a new farming generation decided to make Kerry their home.
Tralee RTC decided to do something about the crisis and set up a rural exchange programme to tackle the problem - watch the report for more.
