HALLOWEEN is a time to have fun with baking, the squishy, squelchy and gooey textures that you can achieve can be suitably spooky.

All the local ghosts and ghouls are out for Halloween celebrations in Cork.

A fierce fire-breathing dragon is set to reawaken from its lair and prowl the ancient spine of Cork City tomorrow night as part of one of the country’s largest Halloween festivals.

Ellie O’Byrne picks her top eight events for Halloween

GIG WISE: Coldplay is the biggie this weekend as Chris Martin and co perform at Croke Park tomorrow.

WOW, we’re really got the bit between our teeth about Halloween at last. We’re every bit as commercial as the US, I couldn’t believe the number of spooky festivals in Ireland this season.

Halloween is the ideal time to scare yourself with a good horror movie. Happy to oblige, Declan Burke lists the best horror movies of all time and, for good measure, throws in a list of the five most cursed film sets and five best scary movies for kids.  

Could there be a more appropriate, atmospheric time to launch the sale of Carrigrohane Castle than All Hallows Eve, or Halloween?

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Sick of the commercialism of Hallowe’en nowadays? Want to return to Samhain’s roots? Well maybe it’s time to take a trip to the Aran Islands, says Ken Phelan, and check out the vibrant local traditions of All-Hallow’s Eve

Evolution may have planted some common human fears while others are passed on, wittingly and unwittingly, by our parents says Rita de Brun

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.

3,000-year-old remains of a baby have been found during inaugural archaeological works at a Meath site reputed to be the birthplace of Halloween.

This is the week of Halloween night.

A Samhain festival in Co Meath acts as an annual gathering for Ireland’s growing numbers of Pagans, writes Caomhán Keane.

Chinatown comes to Cork tonight as a huge fire-breathing dragon and more than 350 ghouls and zombies take over one of the city’s most historic areas.

Looking for something creatively creepy to do this Halloween? Pól Ó Conghaile scours the country for a round-up of mid-term’s most macabre events...

IT’S not even December but some people are already celebrating the New Year — the Celtic New Year, that is.

Halloween is a mish-mash of many cultures, but its roots can be found in Ireland’s pagan tradition, writes Carl Dixon.

THE last time Tina saw her grandfather was last Thursday. The only odd thing about the encounter was that he had been dead for 15 years.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese will tomorrow open the country’s biggest Irish language and cultural festival.

CRUELLY but superbly, you wrote recently that Bertie Ahern had been measured for his lame duck suit(October 4).

Danny Morrisson