69 years on: Tipp farmer,92, still holding out for ‘his ideal woman’

After 69 years attending the annual matchmaking festival in Lisdoonvarna, one 92-year-old farmer from Tipperary hasn't given up hope that he'll one day meet the woman of his dreams.

Speaking ahead of the festival's 160th anniversary this year, bachelor Mick Burke revealed that while he often came away with a 'pocketful of phone numbers' he never had any intention of tying the knot.

"I fell in love with several women I met in Lisdoonvarna. I used to go home with a pocketful of phone numbers – this was my fodder for the winter!" Mick said, according to The Independent.

After almost seven decades attending the well-known festival, Mick hasn't tired of the routine, saying: "I love coming back every year, meeting old friends and dancing and there’s never any trouble here."

"I would say the best thing about coming to Lisdoonvarna is to come with no expectations and you will never be disappointed."

Despite years of dating, Mick never made it up the aisle and firmly believes the remote location of his farm had an influence on potential partners.

"Once I was dating a woman from Dublin and she came to visit me on the farm," Mick recalled.

"It was particularly bad winter and we got snowed in for a few days. After the snow thawed she got straight on a train back to Dublin and that was the end of that."

"I think the remote location put a lot of women off," he added.

Reluctant to give up on love, Mick insisted: "I have to go as far as my eyes can see."

And now we're melting.