What it's like to spend a night at one of Ireland’s most haunted castle hotels

Tom Breathnach spends a night at one of Ireland’s spookiest hotels – just in time for Halloween

The lobby at Kinnitty Castle.

I’m doing a spot of ghost-hunting homework. On Youtube. In the footage, UK doc-makers Shiver are on their latest paranormal mission with all the cinematographic drama of a Blair Witch Project take.

Amid a teaser montage of bumps, jumps and shrieks, presenter Yvette Fielding announces — with the same tone of dread were she on assignment in Transylvania — that she and her team are now off to one of Europe’s most spookiest climes: Offaly!