Meetings arranged through the app, Hingeit becomes a kind of sitcom. As? The girl is engaged but not to the man she was supposed to meet. Meanwhile, we were in Ireland and Leigh Ann Healey – arriving in Dublin from Los Angeles – decided to arrange a date using Hinge: “I was single at the time, and it felt great to meet a nice guy with a nicer accent,” the girl said to People.
She invited some friends to make the evening more fun and even the guy she was supposed to meet told her he would be arriving along with a “much more interesting” friend named DarragH. Morals? The ‘match’ was true, at least to Healey’s taste who, when he saw his friend, reacted like love at first sight: “He really kept his presentation promises. He had the physique of a rugby player… and that smile that made you even forget your name for a moment. There was a magnetic attraction between us. At first it was completely physical and our back and forth made it clear to everyone that something had happened“.
At some point, a friend told the 29-year-old that he would probably never see either of the two boys again and therefore invited him to let loose: “We had moved from Bad Bobs, a tourist bar, to Copper Faced Jacks, a place more frequented by locals, when Nicki Minaj’s Super Freaky Girl started. We were getting closer… and suddenly Darragh and I kissed. From the movie, I know, but I’m very happy“.
And did he really never see them again? Not really, because “Darragh’s friend” offered to accompany him and his California friend to the airport the next day. Of course, Healey still believed that everything would end there, but Darragh reached Los Angeles where he stayed for two weeks: “I took a few days off to make the most of everything. We celebrated Halloween together: he was Winnie the Pooh, I was ‘Sweetheart’, even though we weren’t officially together yet.”
In short, the two are engaged and managing their long distance relationship well until Darragh moved from Dublin to Los Angeles. Since July 2023 they have lived together. “We honestly fell in love from day one.” But what happened to the friend, who according to Hinge was supposed to be the 29-year-old man’s ‘soul mate’? “He was ecstatic. He received praise for playing cupid and to this day boasts that he is ‘the reason we are together.'” Happy ending, of the app.
