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Here’s a great gift idea for any couple and for any occasion… and at a fantastic price!

What couple wouldn’t be thrilled to receive this gift voucher – a four-course meal including a bottle of wine, in an Award winning restaurant?

gifts.ie has partnered with the Court Yard Hotel,  home to the magnificent restaurant The River Bank to bring you this great deal. The Court Yard is located just past Lucan in the village of Leixlip (see map) so is easily accessible from Dublin, Kildare and a few other counties.

As the River Bank restaurant is situated in this fine hotel, this gives your recipients the opportunity, when their meal is finished, to relax even further in one of the hotel’s four famous bars, with live entertainment on five nights a week.

And all of this for only €60! For two people!

A great gift for someone you know deserves to be treated and a nice way to give that someone special a gift they’ll always remember.

For more info and to order, click here or checkout the full range of offers from the Court Yard here.

The history of Valentine’s Day is shrouded in mystery. But the legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When the Emperor decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine defied the Emperor and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, the Emperor ordered that he be put to death.

Did You Know?

• In 1835, the remains (or what are believed to be the remains) of St. Valentine were bestowed to an Irish priest named Father John Spratt by Pope Gregory XVI. A Shrine can still be viewed each Valentine’s day at Whitefrair Street Church in Dublin.
• An estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year.
• Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day around 498 A.D.
• St. Valentines is also the patron saint of beekeepers and as being of help against fainting!
• 61 percent of all men surveyed say they would like to receive flowers for Valentine’s Day from a woman.