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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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‘‘Tis my money. I just didn’t want to fill out de forms”
Would it be too hard to put a gps tracking device into an ATM?
@artie kelly: Yes but what if the ATM just wanted to go for an evening stroll?
@artie kelly: exactly what I was thinking. And surely some sort of alarm notification once it has been “removed” from the wall. Banks love their money so much I’m surprised there isn’t that kind of setup
@Neil Mac: Banks love YOUR money. They’ve got none of their own, remember?
@Michael Lynch: well said.
Usually it’s the bank who rob the public.
Someone forgot their atm card again
The thieves got away with nothing as the ATM was empty of funds because the tight Caaaavan heures keep all their money under the mattress.
Matter of time before discount stores are selling diggers
‘Thieves rob ATM without using a digger’. Now that will be newsworthy!
@P Mc G: it’s amazing them Cavan people trust the banks
Good news! With the corruption in this country from the top down, why not join the Frey and make the best of it.
Border rats. Hard Brexit is most welcome.
Will the hard border will put a stop to this?
@Random_paddy: one in Cavan ,one in Dungannon ,both sides of the border
Ha, makes a change though. Usually they just walked in and took it. Ffs that bank has been robbed 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years. Sure there used to be a another bank across the road from it. One year they robbed that one and then went across the street to the other and robbed it before getting away.
Do these people not realise that they have security features that destroy the money inside?
@Dan Skelton: ways around everything
@Dan Skelton: they actually open it under water and the ink is oil based and floats to the top then they wash the notes with vanish from the supermarket.
@Eoin Kenny: No, the container has no top and simply spills dye when the machine is moved over a certain degree. Banks deserve to be hit like this when they don’t install the dye in all machines.
Would it be too hard to put a gps tracking device on atms??
Why is there no automatic alarm built in to ATM machines or a GPS tracker??
So what’s new?
ATMs need to be removed from small towns and placed in Garda stations.
@Tim McCormack29: or Garda stations with permanent officers need to be placed in small towns. Having them in Garda stations would not suit a lot of people
@Tim McCormack29:
Would you trust the Gardai ?
@Barry Foster:
Far more than I would trust the banks.
@Tim McCormack29: is there not a Garda station in Kingscourt? Or is it one of those unmanned ones..
Election funding!
How about a self destruct charge which would go up 20 seconds after the atm was removed…..a nice big one!!
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