Turning a blind eye to omen heading off to find love in Waterford (8)

I believe the answer is:

ignoring

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'turning a blind eye to' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being present participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'omen heading off to find love in waterford' is the wordplay.
'omen' becomes 'sign' (I've seen this before).
'heading off' means to remove the first letter.
'to find' says to put letters next to each other.
'love in waterford' becomes 'oring' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sign' with its first letter taken off is 'ign'.
'ign'+'oring'='IGNORING'

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(Other definitions for ignoring that I've seen before include "Paying no attention to" , "Refusing to notice" , "Refusing to acknowledge" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.

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