Louise O'Neill: 'Trick or treating might be cancelled, but Halloween can still be saved.'

"It’s fine for adults to say that it’s just one year, that things will be back to normal by Halloween 2021, but that can feel like a lifetime when you’re a kid. Just like us, they need their small pleasures too."

 Picture: Miki Barlok

I was supposed to be on a writing retreat this week, but I cancelled once the new restrictions were announced. 

(It was the right thing to do but I also didn’t fancy my chances of going through a Garda checkpoint trying to claim novel-writing as ‘essential work’.)