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Meet The Fear Dearg, one of the four curious creatures representing the four aspects of Samhain: the Light, the Dark, the Mischief and the Change celebrated within the Púca Festival.

Representing Mischief, The Fear Dearg busies himself with practical jokes. He and his fellow mischief makers are loutish, boorish, ill-mannered and churlish. Samhain is the night when he puts on a show! He loves fire because it’s as unpredictable as him, and music that gets more manic as it goes on. When the torches are lit, and the music begins to play – you know the Fear Dearg is on his way!

Unfortunately, due to the impact of COVID-19, Fáilte Ireland and festival partners Meath County Council and Louth County Council have made the difficult but unavoidable decision to suspend the Púca Festival for 2020.

This year, we will be celebrating Ireland’s authentic claim to be the original birthplace of Halloween virtually. At 8pm on the 31st October we will launch the lighting of the Samhain fires video filmed earlier this year. Together we will celebrate of the story of Halloween’s origins in Irish and Celtic traditions.

We hope you will join us wherever you are in the world and we look forward to welcoming you back to our Festival in 2021.