There are hauntingly good Halloween celebrations happening throughout the country that are sure to spook the daylights of anyone enjoying a trip to Ireland during late October.
There’s a wide range of activities and festivals taking place including pumpkins, ghosts and dressing up, which should put the fright back into your Halloween. Here are some to spike your interest:
For something a little different while on vacation in Ireland, why not experience an alternative perspective of the some of the more pressing economic issues affecting Irish society today amid the welcoming surroundings of Kilkenny City between the 6th and 9th November 2014.
There may be a new Dracula film hitting the silver screen at the moment but it looks like the vampire theme is set to continue in Dublin City during the latter part of October when the Bram Stoker Festival 2014 takes place between the 24th and 27th October.
Venues in the north and west of the Ireland were found to be big winners in a long list of food, pub, restaurant and hotel facilities at the Georgina Campbell Awards 2015.
Scooping the top prize in the country’s longest-running hospitality awards was Beach Hill House Hotel just outside of Derry who won the “Hotel of the Year” award who won praise for its dog-friendly approach combined with quality of food supplied by an historic walled garden as well as its 6km walking trails set in 42 acres of woodland.
The tourism body for Kilkenny City are offering visitors an especially cheap day out on Saturday, 11th October, for Kilkenny FREE Day. Buildings all over the city and County Kilkenny will be open to visitors free of charge throughout the day giving both locals and those on vacation in Ireland the chance to enjoy visiting some of Kilkenny’s finest tourism attractions and to take tours of Kilkenny buildings which may not always be open to the public.
Tourism in Ireland is on the increase and businesses are reporting a positive growth in visitor numbers from this past Summer, especially from German and US visitors. Experts are claiming that this growth is due to the Wild Atlantic Way 2500 km route, from Malin Head in County Donegal to Mizen Head in County Cork.
The summer may have come and gone but the month of October is always synonymous by the banks of the River Lee in Cork with the onset of the annual Jazz Festival between 23rd and 27th October 2014.
The globally renowned Guinness Cork Jazz Festival typically sees over 1,000 musicians making the trip to Ireland to take part in over 400 sessions at 70 venues across Cork City and the surrounding environs.
The eighteen day Dublin Theatre Festival is currently in full swing. The festival first staged in 1957, has a long history and is Europe’s longest running specialist theatre festival. An annual event, the festival brings world class performers to Dublin providing a platform to showcase the best in Irish theatre performances.
According to figures released recently by the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO), the total number of overseas trips to Ireland has seen an increase of up to 10% over the peak summer months. During the period between June and August 2014, the amount of trips to and vacations in Ireland increased by almost 9.7% to 2,484,000. This marked an overall increase of 219,200 compared to the same period in 2013.
