This new clown craze is no laughing matter

Is all this clowning around far more serious than we think? Suzanne Harrington investigates.

“The Nightmare Realm — terrorising Cork and Dublin this October,” promises its Facebook page. True to their word, three actors from the Cork-based ‘Halloween scare house’, dressed as terrifying clowns and armed with pretend chainsaws, took a wrong turn into the grounds of a Dublin school.

Cue panic.