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LOVE was in the air at the University of Limerick winter conferrings earlier this week.
“Cuddling with someone you love triggers the brain to release oxytocin. This chemical relieves stress and promotes a feeling of well-being and happiness.” That’s according to betterhelp.org which published psychology facts about love.
Nobody knows this more than than Aisling Costello and Adam O'Riordan who both received a PhD in Psychology on Tuesday.
“We’re a couple also” Adam chimed while Aisling added: “This is how we met, thanks to our supervisors”.
Adam is originally from Drombanna while Aisling is a native of County Mayo.
“We both did our undergraduate together for four years but we were only friends and then in the first year of the PhD,” Aisling explained. And like any romantic love story, they finished each other's sentences.
“We became friends then and it went from there,” Adam told Limerick Live.
All good things started in UL for this Texan-based couple who are now working in Baylor University, Waco.
“We started our positions there last September and the plan is to stay there for a while,” Adam quipped.
The star-gazed lovers studied, live and now work together in America.
“We spend 24 hours together,” Adam concluded.
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