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Pooka's Labyrinth Halloween parade making its way through Temple Bar in Dublin last night. Staged by the Aontas Festival Group, it featured 200 people as skeletons, stilt-walking angels and demonic drummers.

Pooka's Labyrinth Halloween parade making its way through Temple Bar in Dublin last night. Staged by the Aontas Festival Group, it featured 200 people as skeletons, stilt-walking angels and demonic drummers.


Photograph: Frank Miller

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