{"id":155084,"date":"2025-10-31T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155084\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:31:23","slug":"dubliners-to-finally-get-macnas-halloween-parade-they-were-mistakenly-promised-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155084\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubliners to finally get Macnas Halloween parade they were mistakenly promised a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The parade is part of Dublin City Council\u2019s Bram Stoker Festival\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Boy Macnas. Pic: Emilija Jefremova\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fc0db510-22a0-4294-b098-4ee64a22c52e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Boy Macnas. Pic: Emilija Jefremova<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hundreds of Dubliners lined O\u2019Connell Street a year ago, expecting a Halloween parade. But there was one big problem: it didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The phantom procession had been listed on a website called My Spirit Halloween, a US-based site run from Pakistan that used promotional pictures for the event that were from events held by Galway-based performance group Macnas in the capital in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parade is part of Dublin City Council\u2019s Bram Stoker Festival The Boy Macnas. Pic: Emilija Jefremova Hundreds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[52,90583,18,117,11850,19,17,72289,1842],"class_list":{"0":"post-155084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dublin","9":"tag-dublin-halloween","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-halloween","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-national-library-of-ireland","16":"tag-sarah-burke"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115468323079321755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}