Halloween

Halloween in the Heritage Garden

Halloween in the Heritage Garden

Donnybrook played its part in this year’s Halloween festivities with a fun-filled event in The Heritage Garden on Bloomfield Avenue. The centre’s Celebration of Halloween took place on November 1st on a somewhat stormy evening packed with fancy dress, games, […]

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Scary times in Ringsend

Scary times in Ringsend

Yesterday when locals took part in the annual halloween parade, over 100 children marched from the Spellman Centre to Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre along with their parents. Goblins, ghouls, vampires (one of which was Mary Doolin of the Spellman […]

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Horror Hotspots

Horror Hotspots

With Halloween just around the corner I decided to take a bike ride around the local area to find out where our top horror hotspots are. First stop Misery Hill, Grand Canal Quay. In the 1500s, Misery Hill was home to a set of gallows where thieves and pirates

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The Banshee

The Banshee

Sightings of banshees in the Ballsbridge area, reported as recently as September of this year stirred me to write an article about it. The name banshee originates from the Irish word bean sí or woman of the fairy mounds. She’s

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