Day/Time: Friday 27th & Saturday 28th October 2017

Location: Kilronan Equestrian Centre, Kettles Lane, Cloughran, Swords, Co Dublin

Facebook Page:  www.facebook.com/WickedWoodsDublin

Kids Ticket: (6:30 pm -9:00 pm) €7 
Family Ticket: (6:30 pm -9:00 pm) €25 
Adult Ticket: 16 years + (9.30 - 11.30pm) €10

ARE YOU & YOUR KIDS BRAVE ENOUGH ...... to walk the Wicked Woods trail this Halloween... You won't be alone out there in the woods....  

If you don't wish to follow the Wicked Woods Trail there are also a number of fun Halloween indoor activities and games.  Our Halloween Trail is opened from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm (Kids & Families) and for Adults Only (16 years+), 9.30 - 11.30pm. Tickets available at the door on the night.

This event is a fundraiser for the Temple Street "Trick or Treat for Temple Street"   so please feel free to come up on the night and support a great cause.

Location: Malahide Castle & Gardens, Malahide

Day/Time:  Friday 27th October - Tuesday 31st October

Contact No: 01 8169538 for reservations

Website: www.malahidecastleandgardens.ie/halloween2017

Cost:  Kids - €10,  Adults - €8,

Join us this Halloween at Malahide Castle for some creepy sounds and tales throughout our  haunted rooms. Listen out for some surprises as the storyteller walks you through these enchanted tales. Interact with some of the oldest paintings within the Castle and watch out for that naughty jester, Puck, who might just make an appearance! Kids big and small will have the chance to play with live sounds through interactive exhibitions. Don’t miss this unique, creative and quirky 3D audio Spooktacular!!

Age Group: Suitable only for families with children aged 6+.  

Day/Time: Friday 27th October - Wednesday 1st November, half hour tours from 11.00 - 4.00pm

Location: Ardgillan Castle,

Website: www.ardgillancastle.ie/halloween-house-of-horrors

Tel: (01) 849 2212

Cost: €5 per person. Bookings to be made on-line,link above.

This year it is scarier than ever - NEW Walkthrough event at Ardgillan Castle without a guide.  This tour is not for the faint-hearted! The castle is covered in unnerving darkness and strangeness awakens. The Ardgillan Castle's ghosts are stirring and are ready to wreck mayhem and havoc. Prepare to feel the chilling presence of Halloween all around you.  Beware this tour is very scary - children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times. Are you brave enough to enter???  Book on-line, click on website link above - if you dare!

Day/Time: Monday 31st October, 5.30 - 8.00pm (Fireworks from 7pm)

Location: Swords Castle & Town Park (access via Bridge Street, Swords)

FREE FAMILY EVENT - Lots of scary fun with wicked witches, ghastly ghouls and grisly gremlins, music and dancing at Fingal's Festival of Fire. A scary tunnel for the little ones and for the more adventurous, a super scary spine-tingling tunnel. No Halloween would be complete without a spectacular fireworks display which will be the grand finale at 7.00 pm. Make sure you wear your Halloween Costume!

Day/Time: Saturday 28th October - Tuesday 31st October

Location: Butlers Chocolates, Clonshaugh Business Park, Coolock

Website & On-Line Booking:  www.butlerschocolates.digitickets.co.uk/tickets/

Tel: 01 6710599

Cost: €12.85 - Adult & Child. Family - €47.50. Children under 3 go free

All Treats and no Tricks at the Happy Hauntings Butlers Chocolate Experience. Dress up in your favourite Halloween costume and be greeted by the resident Butlers Witch and watch the Butlers chocolate movie. Gals and ghouls will take a tour of the Chocolate Museum and enjoy the aroma from the Butlers Chocolate Factory. Your little monsters will then enjoy a demonstration and decorate their own chocolate pumpkin to take home. You can then enjoy another treat at the on-site Butlers Chocolate Café. Pre-booking essential, save 5% when you book on-line.

Age Group: 5-16 years  Younger kids are more than welcome if you think they are up for the scare!

Day/Time: Monday 23rd - Tuesday 31st October 2017, 4-8pm  hrs.

Location: Irish Military War Museum, Starinagh, Collon, Co Meath

OnLine Booking: www.eventbrite.ie/e/fun-spooky-nights-at-the-museum-tickets

Cost: €15.00 per child, Adults go FREE.  

Haunted Tour of the Museum, Pumpkin from our Pumpkin Patch, Unlimited Access to Bouncy Castle Park, Halloween Movies with Free Popcorn, Halloween Games Galore

Each kid goes home with a pumpkin of their choice and a Ghosbuster Torch!  Free tea & coffee token for the parents.

Day/Time: Fri 27th - Mon 30th October

Website: www.bramstokerfestival.com

The sixth Bram Stoker Festival takes the legacy of Dublin horror novelist and Dracula author Bram Stoker as inspiration. Dublin City will celebrate four days of living stories and four nights of deadly adventures.   Bram Stoker Festival 2017 has something for everyone in its gothically inspired programme of events. 

Day/Time: Mon 30th October, 5.30 - 6.30pm (parade starts 6pm)

Location: Throughout Dublin city, starting on Moore Street, culminating at Wolfe Tone Square

Website: Macnas Twilight Procession

Bring your family along to the Macnas twilight parade as part of the Bram Stroke Festival through Dublin city to launch the city into the 2017 theme "Memory Song". Join the colourful, musical parade and feel the earth move below your feet with the thunderous steps of the giants binging imagination and invention, a hauntingly beautiful, wild and tempestuous parade, Memory Song, through the broad and narrow streets of Dublin’s Northside. 

Day/Time: Tuesday 31st October, 12 - 4pm

Location: Dublin Zoo,Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

Contact No: +353 1 4748900

Website: Dublin Zoo Website

Join us this Halloween for a very special spooktacular event amongst all the zoo's wildlife, creatures and birds.  Creepy arts and crafts, spine-chilling keeper talks, spooky face painting. Join us for monster music on the Great Lawn as well as many other festive activities.

Age Group: Suitable for children 6-12 years. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Day/Time: Saturday 28th October - Sunday 5th November 2017, 3.30 - 4.30pm

Location: Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road, Glasnevin

Website: www.glasnevintrust.ie/children-s-mid-term-tales

Tel: (01) 882 6550

Cost: €7, Adults - Free. Bookings made on-line, link above.

"A brand new cemetery tour for all the family" 

Designed especially for children this brand new tour will showcase some of the cemetery’s most entertaining stories. This Mid-Term, bring the whole family to hear fascinating tales of torpedoed ships, assassinated parrots and graverobbing galore.  From the RMS Leinster to poisonous Yew trees, bring the history of Glasnevin Cemetery to life with this family friendly tour.

Age Group: 0 - 100 years

Day/Time: Sat 21st- Sun 22nd October, Sat 28th - Tues 31st October, 2-5pm

Location: Wooly Wards Farm, Whitestown House, Oldtown, Co. Dublin

Tel: 087 367 6787

Website: www.woolywardsfarm.com/halloween-spectacular

Halloween Spooktacular Fun at Wooly Ward’s Farm - an event not to miss with the family. 6 days of pumpkin decorating, chocolate apple dipping, a visit to the House of Horrors, creepy creatures, and no visit complete without joining in the Wooly Wards Halloween Show. Scary Mary would love to see the children dress up in their favourite Halloween costume to join in the fun. Of course everyone’s favourite activities will be there such as pony rides, rides on Thomas the Tank Engine, the Petting Shed, playtime on the Tractor slide and more! Don't forget to warm up at the Cackling Cafe with a hot tea/coffee and a slice of homemade cake or scones. Lots of treats available for the little monsters also!

Day/Time: 21st, 22nd, 28th, 29th & 30th October, 11-5pm.

Location: Kennedy's Pumpkin Patch, Julianstown, Co Meath

Website: www.kennedyspumpkinpatch.com

Cost: €10 per family. €3 for an individual. Bookings to be on-line,link above.

All little ghosts, witches and goblins are all welcome to experience picking your own pumpkin directly from the pumpkin patch! We also do tea/coffee, hot apple cider (non alcoholic), chocolate apples, halloween cupcakes, pumpkin carving sets, face painting and other Halloween treats all individually priced. Dont forget your wellies! This event sells out quick so book now!

Pick Your Own Pumpkin is also available at "Alright Pumpkin", Girley, Fordstown, Co Meath. There is no cover charge, just buy a pumpkin, and no need to book! Pumpkins start at just 5 euros! Click HERE for more details.

Day/Time: Sunday 29th - Monday 30th October

Location: National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin, Dublin 9

Website: National Botanic Gardens

Tel: 01 8040300

There's so much going at the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin this October and over the mid-term break. If you and your family have never been this is a wonderful time of the year to go - Autumn at its best. View the Halloween harvest display and decorated pumpkin exhibition. On Sunday it's Dress Up Day when all witches and ghouls dress to distress! Help spin a giant spider web through the oak trees, discover all the magical plants when you visit the witches Mad Morigan and Elfina in their garden.

Definitely worth watching - Claudia Winkleman's interview as she relives the moment her daughter Maltida's Halloween dress went up in flames. Claudia wants to share her story with as many parents as possible to ensure what happened to her daughter does not happen to your child. Brave mum, brave daughter.

We all dress up our children in costumes and carry lit lanterns, trick and treat on spooky pumpkin candlelit doorways ...... maybe this Halloween give a little thought to your child's costume and the candlelights around you and importantly your child. Place your candles and pumpkins away from your doorway during trick and treat. Have a safe and happy Halloweeen.

Click link below to watch Claudia's interview:

Claudia Winkleman's Interview