Twitter helps reunite Irishman with Canadian crush he met in-flight

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Katie Moreau
Katie Moreau on Facebook (2014 Facebook)

Call it love at first flight.

That's the hashtag an Irishman used in his social media campaign to track down the cute Canadian tourist he'd met on a plane.

And on Wednesday, Nova Scotia's Katie Moreau went on a date with her Ryanair Romeo, 24-year-old Jamie Kelly, of Galway.

Kelly's story made news in his home country after some of his friends went online looking for the girl he knew only as Katie, "Canadian girl, brown hair, travelling around Ireland with her mum."

 

 

The pair met in late July on a flight from Barcelona to Dublin but got separated in the customs line, Ireland's Herald newspaper reports.

News of Kelly's search made it across the pond and Moreau's sister alerted her, according to the Herald.

They were reunited by phone Tuesday on Ireland's Today FM radio, then went out Wednesday for a surfing lesson and a romantic meal.

Radio host Ray D'Arcy, who was instrumental in bringing the lovebirds together, said Thursday they "definitely hit it off."

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