Emergency services receive 1,500 calls over Halloween

It has been a busy Halloween night for the country's fire and ambulance services.

Crews across Leinster attended 790 call outs between 6pm yesterday evening and this morning.

An estimated 1,500 were received in total.

Fire crews also came under fire with several incidents of stones being thrown at their vehicles as they attended emergencies in the Tallaght, Beaumont, Crumlin and Spencer Dock areas of Dublin - however no personnel were injured.

One of the emergencies in the Tallaght area involved a 26 year old woman who suffered facial injuries when something exploded in a bonfire. She has been taken to hospital in Tallaght.

Up to 300 ambulance callouts were received in the Dublin area.