Event: Day of the Dead

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food

Weekend food with Darina Allen: Scary Halloween treats to make with your kids

WE’RE all set for Halloween, squash, pumpkins and gourds of every size, shape and colour are piled precariously on the cookery school table tops, window ledges, in baskets and boxes. They look so beautiful.

food

Halloween baking with Michelle Darmody: Witches’ fingers, ghosts and Dia de los Muertos cookies

news

BULLETIN: Polls open in Presidential Election and referendum ballots; Parents may sue State on school closures

High street tat is the real Halloween horror show

Darina Allen remembers the original spirit of Halloween

sport

No bones about it for Lewis Hamilton

VIDEO: Full trailer for James Bond's Spectre launches tomorrow

The first full trailer for the latest James Bond adventure, dubbed Spectre, will launch online tomorrow - starring Daniel Craig

Tue, 21 Jul, 2015

Ballymaloe Halloween Barmbrack

ALMOST every culture around the world marks Halloween, the Day of the Dead or All Souls Day in it’s own magical way, but despite the differences, the basic idea behind all these customs is to honour, remember and appease the dead.

Sat, 25 Oct, 2014

Irish Tea Barmbrack

HALLOWEEN creates almost as much excitement as Christmas nowadays.

Sun, 20 Oct, 2013

Tricks and treats

HALLOWEEN was a spooky time when I was child, we heard all about the banshee. People told ghost stories and we ate barmbrack and colcannon. It was all about fortune telling and divination.

Sat, 30 Oct, 2010

Mexico celebrates Day of the Dead

Mexico celebrated the first of two Day of the Dead celebrations today with elaborate food- and flower-laden altars designed to guide the spirits of the deceased in their annual journey back to Earth.

Tue, 01 Nov, 2005

Pope Benedict to pray by predecessors tombs

Pope Benedict XVI today said he would pray by the tombs of past Popes in the grottoes beneath St. Peter’s Basilica on All Souls’ Day, and would give a special thought to the “beloved” Pope John Paul II.

Tue, 01 Nov, 2005