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HALLOWEEN IS GREAT for the little ones. The costumes, the sweets, the sugar-crash tantrums after the sweets – these are all fine but this holiday is supposed to be about being scared stiff.
It doesn’t just have be about the kids so here are just some of the things you can get up to over the Halloween period to scare the bajesus out of you.
These guys offer night-time tours of the infamous Hellfire Club in Dublin, which incidentally meet outside a pub so there’s the option of having a full night of spirits if you so wish.
Hook Head Lighthouse is the oldest intact operational lighthouse in the world. They’ll be doing four scary tours of the tower from 29 to 31 October.
(Image: Will Bakker/Flickr)
Loftus Halloffers an ‘Adult Only Halloween Experience’ which comes with a warning about strobe lighting so you know it’s going to be good.
And Ross Castle in Kerry has a ghost rider which, to us, is equal parts badass and spine-chilling. This ghost tour will take you there.
Some of the oldest, and subsequently the most creepy graveyards in the country offer tours including Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
(Image: William Murphy/Flickr)
The Gravedigger tour will take you to Bully’s Acre and the Killarney Ghost Tour also promises gravestones.
There are a number of companies across the country offering murder mystery options. Some of them are more like dinner theatre, so you get a nice meal while actors put on a show and you try to figure out who dunnit. However, we also have the real deal, where guests can spend an entire weekend at a house like Foxford Lodge in Mayo.
(Image: Foxford Lodge)
If you want to take in a bit of history and also have the thrill of being locked in a dark cell for a bit, pop along to one of the gaol tours at Kilmainham, Cork or Wicklow.
(Image: seagen/Flickr)
If you live in Cork, Ireland’s only drive-in cinema will be showing Evil Dead and The Conjuring for four nights starting from 30 October.
(Video: MovieJunction/YouTube)
If you live in the rest of the country, we suppose you could just go to a regular old cinema…
It’ll be scary how great you’ll feel lying on the couch full of sugar.
(Image: Jordon Cooper/Flickr)
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Christmas gift for myself I think.
+1
Been getting my hair cut in Pip Connolly’s since the late 70′s – he won’t take new customers now, only his regulars, but he’s still going strong.
Great to see Eric’s shots – the story of Ireland, along with the likes of Matt Kavanagh and Peter Thursfield.
Careful Eamon, some lefty types might accuse you of being a racist.
Well lefties and also people who aren’t racists.
Why? Because multiculturalism is a load of tripe? All races are equally OK, all cultures are not.
@Greg Blake:
Imported medievalism dressed up in progressive authoritarianism and liberal bigotry.
Great photos, Eric. Very evocative. You were always a great photographer, and a gentleman to work with back in the IP days.
You’d hardly know the place now.
That’s a good thing though,the empty churches are a sign of progress and better education.
@Tariq ibn Ziyad: Odd, my church is not empty
That may be the case Easter,but it’s unusual to only have one pew in a church.
Multi cult hell hole.….. Catch a grip of yourself.
Great images
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