Martha Stewart apologises for homeless person Halloween costume: ‘It’s hard to admit you’ve screwed up’
Post with image of Stewart dressed as homeless person for Halloween also promoted candle range
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Vacant house in Dublin set on fire four times on busiest Halloween in 15 years
Footage has emerged of chaotic scenes in parts of Dublin, including cars being set alight
‘She was wronged’: new film lifts the lid on an infamous Irish ‘witch burning’
The killing of Bridget Cleary by her husband in 1895 was long a taboo subject in Tipperary
I’m a scaredy cat who skips scary movies at Halloween. Life gives us enough jump scares
While the spooky season might lure the thrillseekers, I will bury myself in blankets and carve friendly faces on to pumpkins
This spider is just in time for a starring role in the Halloween horror show
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
As an autumnophile, I particularly like the concept of Samhain
The thinning of reality between the living and dead embraces the spirit world, fables and faeries, and underlines the huge importance in our heritage of story
Cricut Maker 5 review: Home crafting levels up
Faster than its predecessors, the new machine will help you unlock your creativity
I keep finding myself thinking ‘I am living in the future and it is mental’
We live in a spooky, AI-filled world but even at Halloween there’s nothing as frightening as a defunct dishwasher
This Meath castle is said to be one of Ireland’s most haunted. One brave reporter stayed the night
In Ross Castle, the ghost of Sabina is said to haunt her former bedroom. Will we survive the night?
Witch rewards: pumpkin is the star of these Halloween recipes
Just make sure you use the right kind of pumpkin, or squash, in these two dishes
The Irish Times view on Halloween: hello darkness, my old friend
Better to accept Halloween for what it is, a shape-shifting festival with roots in the turn of the year
Halloween weather to be mostly dry and bright, says Met Éireann
Rain will clear from the west on Saturday, with a settled and dry start to November expected
The original Irish Halloween menu: ‘Put down the plastic and pull up a cabbage’
Foodstuffs played a central role in Ireland’s Samhain tradition − although not always for eating
‘Some people lose fingers or an entire hand’: Warning over illegal fireworks being sold online to children
Many of those suffering injuries over Halloween from the explosives are under 18
Pat Kenny injects touch of venom into take on Charles Haughey’s kickback-funded lifestyle
Radio: As veteran presenter assesses late taoiseach with Vincent Browne, Brendan O’Connor’s James McClean interview is another captivating encounter
The Halloween Movie Quiz: Who made a youthful appearance in Friday the 13th?
Plus: How well do you know your Dracula outings?
One young fellah nearly fell off his bicycle looking at our Halloween decorations
It would be a serious stretch to claim Halloween is Irish. It evolved from a stew of multicultural influences
‘No one knew anything about pumpkins in Ireland’: An Irish farmer on a growth industry
Tom Dillon took an American Halloween tradition back home with him to Co Meath
A straight-up depiction of suicide is not ideal street decor, even at Halloween
Fake corpses and dismembered body parts – when did Halloween become so horrible?
Killer cobwebs: The Halloween decorations causing problems for wildlife
Small mammals and birds can be put at grave risk from webbing, which is typically made with tough strands of synthetic fibres
The Co Galway winner of US show Is it Cake?: ‘This wasn’t overnight, but over the course of 17 years’
Corinna Maguire on why the Netflix show is the ‘golden goose’ for cake artists, and how its host’s mispronunciation put her town in the spotlight
It’s Halloween ... the time of year when everyone should take vitamin D
Studies suggest depression, Alzheimer’s and bacterial infections could be linked to vitamin D deficiency
The banshee is alive and well on the western seaboard
It is not too difficult to believe in her – whoever the hell she is – when the wind is howling and whispering through the trees late at night
This will be my sixth year trick-or-treating. Here’s what I’ve discovered
Halloween offers up a portal for neighbours to connect – even if it is only once a year
Fright sites: eight eerie Irish locations to chill the bones
Take a walk on the witchy side this Halloween with these spooky places to visit around Ireland
Storm Boelo: Flood warnings issued for nine coastal counties and riverside areas
Emergency co-ordinators say wet ground and high rivers after Storm Austen increase risk of inland flooding
Face paints containing lead found by health watchdog
HPRA advises parents and guardians to buy from reputable retailers
Halloween festivals, spooky parades and ghoulish galas to consider this midterm
A round-up of the best activities, concerts and family-friendly events to attend around Ireland over the October break
Pet owners urged to be wary of firework noise as Halloween approaches
The Irish Blue Cross is urging pet owners to keep their cats and dogs safely indoors after dark
O’Connell Street was always more than a street. Can it start to live up to its potential?
Halloween would be a good place to begin
Why Halloween pumpkins are smaller this year, and three viral hacks to carve them
Get your hammer, your whisk and your biscuit cutters ready before you embark on this year’s pumpkin adventures
To admit weekends are doing the big shop and catching up on laundry is regarded as rudeness
Working to survive leaves little or no room to do or think about anything else
Gardaí seized nearly 2,000 fireworks, worth €347,000, in past 10 years
Operation Tombola targets the importation, sale and distribution of illegal fireworks
‘Screamers’ house, former home to controversial cult, for sale in Co Donegal
Plus: Raw milk’s granny-longevity powers, taking back Halloween, and a sort of homecoming for Pico Lopes
Word search: Alison Healy on the popularity of certain words and phrases, real and made up
Lexicographers love a low-key quiz on the origins of spoffle and dogmental
Rate of Halloween fireworks injuries among children ‘unchanged’ despite legal moves
An EU directive on the sale and marketing of pyrotechnics was enacted in Ireland in 2015
Gambling and clothing lead to increased spending on credit and debit cards in October
Central Bank said the Halloween effect, with spending on costume hire, was a factor in strong increase in spending on clothing
Róisín Ingle: Let’s have more dancing at Irish funerals
It wasn’t easy for Manchán Magan’s friend to get up, deep in his grief, to lead us in dance but it was healing and it seemed to shift something in all of us
Gardaí investigating after brick thrown through councillor’s front window in Meath
Cllr Alan Lawes’s daughter was alone in the house when the incident occurred
On the eve of Samhain, Ireland’s landscape and wildlife prepare for rest and a reset
Our relatively mild, damp winters attract a wide range of migratory species and tie back into the island’s folklore
More than 50 years on, The Exorcist still possesses the United States
US Letter: Scenes were filmed in Washington DC, where the 1973 movie is celebrated to this day
Halloween night sees more than 200 fire calls made to Dublin firefighters by 8pm
Dublin Fire Brigade say vast majority of calls on active fires related to bonfires
Politics of fear: horror has always been deeply political
From Addams Family Values to Dawn of the Dead, the genre is a political Trojan horse concealing all manner of subversive social messages. Here are 10 of the best political horror films for Halloween
Is this one of Dublin’s most decorated Halloween houses?
Diego Gonzalez and Harry Weir’s home is barely visible behind a horror circus of lifesize clownish figures
On Halloween patrol with Dublin Fire Brigade: ‘It’s the one time you’re at risk of attack’
Bonfires and antisocial behaviour on October 31st have been on a mostly downward trend in recent years
Pat Kenny’s unguarded observations are now almost endearing
Radio: Veteran host tackles difficult issues in trademark style, while Drivetime deputy Claire Brock grills RTÉ boss
A look inside Ireland’s only death museum: ‘We’ve had some slight wobbles from people’
At the Irish Wake Museum in Waterford you’ll see death masks, mourning jewellery and dentures made from real teeth. Just watch out for Auntie Nora upstairs!
The Halloween Movie Quiz: Which ghastly character is someone else?
Plus: What was the first Stephen King adaptation to make it into cinemas?
‘A portal to the underworld’: Tramping a bleak bog as part of a spooky Halloween tour
Bogland is highlight of ‘Halloween Origins’ tour in Derry exploring the scientific and spiritual roots of the Celtic festival of Samhain
Patrick Freyne’s guide to the biggest horror TV shows, from Stranger Things to Sesame Street
Including the attractive conformists of Wednesday’s posh private school, the paranormal Baywatch spinoff and the Joanna Lumley show that scarred an Irish child for life
Need a topical Halloween costume? How about Maria Steen’s Hermès handbag, Sexy Louvre Robber or K-Pop House Hunter?
Topical costumes are a special interest of mine, and the presidential election has provided a rich seam of ideas – but I have others
Haunted Dancehall: This is a hipster’s National Ploughing Championships
This is the National Ploughing Championship for hipsters
Heat My Home on RTÉ One: Welcome to income redistribution, Irish style
Television: This is less aspirational programming and more like a foray into a fantasy of unaffordable upgrades
Plastic Halloween bones will still be around centuries after ours have fed the Earth
Call me a killjoy but I am disturbed by the sight of plastic bones in plastic chains
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