Romantic plans for Valentine's Day

An African Penguin pulls a Valentine's Day card into its nest box at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. The colony received the cards with hand written messages from Academy visitors. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

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Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 00:00

First published: Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 00:00

Is love in the air? Or are we just victims of a gigantic marketing scam?

We ask people out and about in Dublin what they will be getting up to this Valentine's Day

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