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For the children of Ireland, the coronavirus has been the Grinch who canceled the trick or treating this year.
When asked three weeks ago if the trick-or-treating was feasible, Medical Director Dr. Tony Holohan said it couldn’t be “a normal Halloween.”
As a result of the pandemic, trick or treating has become the path of many traditional activities that mark the seasons of the year.
As a result of the pandemic, trick or treating has become the path of many traditional activities that mark the seasons of the year.
The upside-down world we live in now means that the only people who will walk in masks this weekend will be adults.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee has told the children of Ireland that it is a “very unique year” that must be the euphemism of the century and that they can help save lives if they stay at home and comply with Level 5 restrictions. .
He called on young people not to light fireworks either, as inevitably there will be accidents that will obstruct the emergency departments that deal with Covid-19.
Yet families in Ireland have bravely sought to get into the Halloween spirit by decorating their homes and gardens with skeletons, spider webs and cut-eyed sheets.
Illuminated pumpkins on the doors will ensure that the Met Éireann’s wind and rain warning isn’t the only orange for Halloween.
Chilling
Google reports a 400 percent increase in searches for Halloween games to play at home.
The 11,000 members of the Irish Girl Guides have put together a Halloween camp at home with ideas for spooky games, crafts and activities.
Participants can make a fort out of blankets under the kitchen table or stack some cushions in the living room to make a makeshift shelter for the night.
An Enchanted Fairy Trail has been presented in Dublin’s Mountjoy Square Park as part of the Big Scream Halloween Community Festival, which was launched in the city center northeast of Dublin.
All the festivals that take place in Dublin, from the Otherworld Festival in Ballymun, Fright Night in Finglas, Dockers and Demons in the city center to the main Bram Stoker Festival, can be experienced online.
The Big Scream, a Bram Stoker celebration in Dublin city center, will be held for free at Zoom (bigscream.ie), while for the older kids, the historic Wicklow Prison in Kilmantin Hill is planning a series of VR tours this year (wicklowshistoricgaol.com).
Derry, which traditionally hosts one of the world’s most dynamic Halloween festivals, has moved it online to derryhalloween.com.
Even if the festivities are canceled at home, Tourism Ireland will market the country abroad as the “Home of Halloween.” The ancient Celts not only invented the festival of Samhain, but Bran Stoker wrote Dracula.
Halloween morning will come stormy and wet, but it should clear at night. There will be a full moon on Halloween for the first time since 1955. It is also the second full moon of the month, known as the blue moon. The next blue moon on Halloween will not be for 19 years, hence the origin of the phrase.
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