A MAJOR voluntary campaign is seeking to send truckloads of spare clothes, food and household goods to some of Ireland’s worst affected flood crisis areas by the weekend.

THIS year’s bad weather will be coming back to haunt revellers at Hallowe’en — for Ireland is short of pumpkins.

The food in your shopping basket is as likely to come from China, Israel and Chile as from Ireland.

BOOMING demand for fake blood, joke teeth and witches’ hats is making Hallowe’en a serious rival to Easter and St Valentine’s Day, shopkeepers said last night.