HAPPENINGS:

Tayto Park Terrors

When the sun goes down on Tayto Park… who knows what roams inside!?

From genetic testing in a quest to create a superhuman race to recent excavation work where an underground tomb and the evil within was unearthed, one thing’s for sure, it’s going to be terrifying!

Yep, Tayto Park Terrors is back on October 20, 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30 from 7.30pm-11.30pm. It costs €25 and is suitable for over 14s.

Halloween at the Botanic Gardens

A bumper series of events and activities to celebrate the coming of Halloween is taking place in Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, on Sunday, October 21. It’s a dress-up day when you can view the Halloween Harvest Display and Decorated Pumpkin Exhibition and discover all about Magical Plants when you visit the witches in their garden. From 12pm there will be Magical Plants presentations every 20 minutes in the Witches Garden (Erasmus Education Garden).

Pick a Pumpkin

Celbridge Manor Hotel is opening its Pumpkin Patch this weekend on Saturday and Sunday, October 20 and 21.

For €20 (plus booking fee) for two adults and up to three children, visitors can pick a pumpkin from the patch, enjoy Pumpkin spice lattes and receive Trick or Treat goody bag for each child.

The Pumpkin Patch will be open from 12 noon until 5pm this weekend and on various dates in the run up to Halloween.

Comedy play in East Wall

PS Productions presents the hilarious comedy ‘It Runs In The Family’, by Ray Cooney, at the Sean O’Casey Community Theatre, East Wall, from October 16-20 at 8pm. 

Pat O’Sullivan is directing the play. Tickets cost €12/€10. For bookings: phone the theatre on 01-8509000 or Pat on 087-6773322.

Lip Synch event in Donnycarney 

A Lip Synch Battle, in aid of St Francis Hospice and the St Anne’s Day Ward at Beaumont Hospital, will take place on Saturday, October 20 at Craobh Chiarain. GAA Club in Donnycarney.

A great night’s entertainment is promised and all for a very good cause. Tickets are €20. 

Please contact Cathy on 083-8440306 for more information. 

Bootscrapers exhibition in Dublin

Ste Murray's new photography exhibition,  'Bootscrapers of Dublin', is on display in Mish Mash Café, Capel Street, for the month of October.

The exhibition documents an architectural detail often found in 18th and 19th century dwellings in Western Europe.

The boostscrapers were designed to remove the street from your feet, and invented at a time when a taste for civic strolling in parks and boulevards became fashionable. 

Mary and Me

Inspired by the story of Ann Lovett, ‘MARY AND ME’ is a compelling imagining of a young woman’s search for understanding and meaning when at a milestone in her life. 

Written and performed by Irene Kelleher and directed by Belinda Wild, this story features a teenage girl who begins a series of conversations with a statue of the Virgin Mary in a grotto.

It takes place on Saturday, October 20 at 8pm in dlr Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre. Tickets €18/€16. 

Oatlands concert 

Oatlands College is hosting a Gala Concert on Thursday, October 25 in Mount Merrion Church to raise funds for college Chaplain, Fr Tony Coote, who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease last March. 

There will be a stellar line up featuring talents Brian Kennedy, Moya Brennan, Camille O'Sullivan, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Johnny Logan, Fr Ray Kelly and Zena Donnelly who will all perform on the night. 

The evening will also feature the Oatlands College Choir joined by the Rockford Manor Choir conducted by Laura Whyte and Sinead Rodger.

Tickets are priced €30 and all funds will be donated for research for new medication RMN and to the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA) for the care of those living with the illness.

Ireland’s Humanitarian Effort

A largely forgotten story from the Great War is the voluntary work of ordinary Irish citizens who devoted much of their time to assist the humanitarian effort. 

These non-combatants came from all sections of Irish society. An exhibition, titled ‘World War 1 Ireland’s Humanitarian Effort’, recalls some of those stories during the final centenary year of World War 1.

Taken from St John’s Ambulance Ireland’s archive, the exhibition interweaves the personal stories of those who worked quietly and tirelessly in the background to alleviate pain, suffering and deprivation of both combatants and non-combatants alike. 

It runs in the DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire until October 25.