Dublin Halloween parade listing a 'mistake'

Dublin Halloween parade listing a 'mistake': website owner
The owner of a Pakistan-based website which shared details of a non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin says it was "a mistake, it was a not a joke, it was not a scam". On Thursday, hundreds of people gathered on O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre for the parade but no police or stewards were present.
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The website, he said, compiled information from about 1,400 Halloween events from all over the world. The nonexistent parade in Dublin was said to be put on by Macnas, an Irish theater group that has previously staged parades and held one this year in Galway — but not Dublin. (Dublin has hosted Halloween parades in past years, but not in 2024.)
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Excited partygoers flooded O'Connell Street, only to find no parade in sight. The confusion quickly led to crowded streets and sidewalks, disrupting traffic and eventually calling for a police response. Dublin's Gardaí, the national police force, were dispatched to manage the swelling crowd and urged people to disperse.
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On Thursday, hundreds of people gathered on O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre for the parade but no police or stewards were present. Gardaí (Irish police) then released a statement saying that no Halloween parade was scheduled and asked those who turned out to "disperse safely".
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