Happily ever after for Irish woman who flew to Hawaii to meet Tinder match

This Irish American love story would possibly make you give Tinder one other probability.

Clodagh O’Sullivan, from Co Kerry, and Brady Elliott, from Florida, at the moment are residing in Eire with their child Jamie after making a fortunate connection on Tinder again in July 2019.

On the time, Elliott, a US Navy medic who was primarily based in Hawaii, was on a day journey in Dingle throughout his trip in Eire. Later, when awaiting his flight house, Elliott was perusing Tinder when he matched with O’Sullivan.

“Our apps should have been in proximity for about an hour once we matched,” O’Sullivan advised the Irish Mirror. “It’s actually fortunate we crossed paths.”

The 2 weren’t capable of meet in particular person after they began chatting on Tinder as Elliott was about to fly, however they added one another on Instagram and began sending messages and talking.

O’Sullivan admits: “By no means in one million years did I believe I’d fall in love and begin a household after accepting that Tinder message.”

Elliott, nonetheless, knew from the beginning that this wasn’t any peculiar Tinder connection: “We matched on the final day of my trip, and I assumed she was beautiful.

“I used to be fairly obsessed together with her from the get-go. Despite the fact that it appeared a bit foolish to maintain texting somebody two oceans away.”

As the 2 continued speaking, Elliot stated he requested the universe for an indication. “Then ‘Nancy Mulligan’ got here on by Ed Sheeran and I knew for positive it was meant to be,” he stated.

“I stored asking her to go to me in Hawaii as a result of I knew she was one thing insanely particular.”

Finally, Elliott received O’Sullivan over and so they booked a ticket for her to go to Hawaii. She says now that she virtually talked herself out of it, however is so completely satisfied she did not.

Elliott describes assembly O’Sullivan on the airport in November 2019 because the “most nerve-racking day of my life,” however he knew Clodagh was the one proper there within the airport.

“Our first few weeks collectively felt like we had recognized one another via a thousand lifetimes,” he stated.

Just some weeks after O’Sullivan’s go to to Hawaii, Elliott booked a ticket again to Eire the place O’Sullivan confirmed him round Dublin and Kerry. 

The 2 had a “very unhappy goodbye” on the finish of Elliott’s time in Eire as they thought it could be months earlier than they may see one another once more. Nevertheless, a number of days later, Elliott stunned O’Sullivan with a airplane ticket to Florida the place she met his household.

In January 2020, Elliott was deployed so the 2 actually thought it was going to be months earlier than they’d see one another once more. The pandemic, sadly, made that wait even longer.

In October 2020, they had been lastly capable of reunite and made issues official throughout a visit to Jamaica and the US in October 2020. Throughout that go to, O’Sullivan acquired pregnant. That December, Elliott packed his luggage and moved to Co Kerry, and the lovebirds welcomed their son Jamie in July 2021.

Elliott now says: “Residing in Eire is superb – I by no means would have imagined residing in a special nation. However residing right here together with her and our little child boy is probably the most surreal factor I’ll ever expertise, and I really like each second of it.”