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Shane Leahy and Madeleine Walsh are looking for help to be together this summer.
AH! Young love.
Here’s a story that will either warm the cockles of your heart or leave you thinking ‘what a cheek!’
A young couple who met and fell in love in Dingle last autumn, have launched a GoFundMe appeal to help keep their romance alive.
Eighteen year old American, Madeleine Walsh met 17-year-old local Shane Leahy from Dingle, while holidaying in the west Kerry town back in September. The couple met over an ice-cream in Garvey’s Supervalu and hit it off immediately.
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Alas, Madeleine had to return to the US with her parents four days after meeting Shane, but has been in touch with the Kerry teenager from her home in Massachussetts ever since.
Shane even travelled to the States last month to meet Madeleine’s family, but with the Leaving Cert on the horizon in June, he had to return home to focus on the exams.
But now, Madeleine is trying to get Shane back to the US by raising $1,000 through a GoFundMe page. They’ve already raised $500 from 19 donors by Thursday morning.
Speaking to Radio Kerry’s TalkAbout programme, Madeline said she’s hoping Kerry people will appreciate a good romantic story and help get Shane over to her on a flight this summer. See the ‘Get Shane To America’ GoFundMe page here.
