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Halloween in Dublin

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  • #2
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,328 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Real MENSA material right there.



  • #3
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,747 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Look like millennials / generation Z heads who for the most part….they’d been probably reading about it on social media, so ‘must be true’…..ffs 😅🤦🏻‍♂️



  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 450 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I dunno though. It's not a far reach for there to be a Halloween parade on O'Connell Street. It's not something totally implausible (like a police motorboat giveaway 😆). There's one on Shandon Street in Cork - why wouldn't there be one on the capital's main thoroughfare?

    https://www.indy100.com/news/police-christmas-hamper-trick-south-yorkshire-the-simpsons-boat-raffle-funny-8126431



  • #5
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Everybody has gone to the city centre pubs. Temple Bar looks like March 17th. Bravo to the Vintner Federation, that's how you do it, fool everybody like the rest of your cronies do.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #6
    Dazler97
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,200 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Who made this up ? Like don't believe everything you see online but I'd say good revenue for the city centre



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  • #7
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,454 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058378706/halloween-in-dublin

    It's not just social media. Crowds/queues tend to be self-propagating. Once a small one gathers, more people will join to see what's going on. Doesn't take much to scale that up to this level.



  • #8
    standardg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Utterly bizarre, but goes to show how many are completely reliant on SM for all their news. Clearly any parade would have been announced in the mainstream.

    Knowledge is learning something, wisdom is learning from it, intelligence thought of it first.



  • #9
    harryharry25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭harryharry25


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122784857#Comment_122784857

    Well if people who fell for it are now drinking in temple bar, they are stupider than I thought



  • #10
    Knine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,776 ✭✭✭Knine


    Sure The Walking Dead parade around Dublin City every night.

    I wonder who started the rumour!



  • #11
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    It would have been the ideal night to say the Russians had started bombing us, fireworks gave the perfect soundtrack.



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  • #12
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Meanwhile, Cork had a real parade.



  • #13
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Local lads in Tallaght amused themselves setting fire to a local amenity…

    https://extra.ie/2024/11/01/news/halloween-dublin-fire-brigade-calls

    Dublin Fire Brigade also shared some of the more notable incidents on their Twitter (X) account, which included a fire at a playground in Jobstown. Some of the playground’s equipment was also on fire.



  • #14
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Lads with "no facilities" set fire to facilities.



  • #15
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122784714#Comment_122784714

    From my personal experience it's more boomers that believe what they see on Facebook "Copy and paste this to your story to keep your data private" we all have those Aunts and Uncles.



  • #16
    Lofidelity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭Lofidelity


    A website called My Spirit Halloween advertised this hoax. It lists events across the world. Never heard of it before. Im surprised it gained so much traction.



  • #17
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,023 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Well maybe we should have one next year



  • #18
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785569#Comment_122785569

    Maybe, but on the evidence of the photos of this particular 'event' it was mainly millennials and gen-Z.



  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 450 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785569#Comment_122785569

    Happy birthday Kathleen lots of love Margaret and tom xxxxxx



  • #20
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785658#Comment_122785658

    I'd say it was more that there's a far higher % of this age demographic out and about in town on Halloween night and as it was said previously only takes a few people lining up for others to join suit. Word of mouth spreads very quickly in crowds.



  • #21
    AndrewJRenko
    Site Banned Posts: 33,931 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785671#Comment_122785671

    The scary thing is that these people are eligible to vote in the upcoming general election.

    https://twitter.com/lil_doza/status/1852153381835665466


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  • #22
    balanced24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭balanced24


    A South American seems to have been the first to share it to tik-tok from a Journal reporter Irelands factcheckers

    Probably searching for something and found this and it got legs


    https://x.com/ste_mcdermott/status/1852095730002874478?s=46



  • #23
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785799#Comment_122785799

    Far scarier is the generation of my parents and above being able to vote who have no real concept of the issues that are affecting the younger generations. They pretend to until you give them the list of issues and then they say "you're all just soft"

    Anyway that's off topic, what last night highlights is how misinformation can so quickly spread and a lot of people aren't double checking sources.



  • #24
    standardg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Love that the guards had to issue a tweet to get them to disperse. It's only true when it's on SM seemingly.

    Knowledge is learning something, wisdom is learning from it, intelligence thought of it first.



  • #25
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,847 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I remember when Halloween used to be basic, simple, easy and all about children dressing up, trick or treating and going home. Immature adults have hijacked it since social media came along.



  • #26
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    For all the laughs etc at the expense of those that travelled in…

    No guard rails, no Garda presence for the parade, no signage…

    And they still lined the side of the path obediently.



  • #27
    boardlady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 287 ✭✭boardlady


    Looks like the perfect 'ghost' parade to me! 😜



  • #28
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,972 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785941#Comment_122785941

    That’s a bit unfair. Yes, it’s gotten more commercialised and the treats have gotten unhealthier but the “old style” Halloween was tame and, dare I say it, lame.

    Growing up in the 80s you’d see the great depiction of Halloween on tv and that’s what you wanted it to be.

    Businesses picked up on this and started selling Halloween decorations and costumes got, slowly, better. What we have now is the Halloween those of us who weren’t happy with bin bag costumes and monkey nuts wanted and kids seem to love it.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #29
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,357 ✭✭✭Cordell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785881#Comment_122785881

    And even more scarier are people scared about others' right to vote.



  • #30
    Lofidelity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭Lofidelity


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785830#Comment_122785830

    That makes sense. There is a huge amount of young South Americans in Dublin so if word spreads in that community, thousands can show up at short notice. Then everyone else in town that evening sees a crowd gathering and they join in to see whats going on.



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  • #31
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Hope they had fun chatting about immigrants eating pets or whatever else social media told them.



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