The Nightmare Realm – Ireland’s only indoor scream park returns to the City Market for the 2024 Halloween season, celebrating 15 years of Fear from Oct 4th to Nov 1st for 22 selected nights. Visitors to our multi award winning event can explore 5 brand new themed mazes along with full access to our fan favourite ‘Halloweentown’, a victorian town stuck in time as well as nightly on-site live Entertainment from The Dark Circus, larger than life photo experiences, scare free zones, new and returning secret rooms, The Museum of Horrors, Festive eats and treats in the food court and, of

Make your Gallery visits more fun and engaging with curious questions and creative storytelling! In this tour we use easy exercises and improv games that explore how we look at, speak about and interact with art in a variety of ways. Join Marise de Grip from Active Social Connections to learn how to have conversations about art, to think outside the box and appreciate different perspectives. Anyone interested in art, creative thinking or public speaking is welcome to attend. No experience is required. Meet your tour guide in our Millennium Wing Information Desk, near our Millennium Wing

Here ye, Queer ye! Fresh off their 5 star smash hit Boyfriends LemonSoap Productions presents their 7th production, Beards! A farcical tale of hope and resilience, Beards by HK Ní Shioradáin, with book by Ultan Pringle, is a rollicking new musical comedy premiering this October at The New Theatre and taking us all the way back to the Middle Ages. To avoid being burnt at the stake for being gay, medieval siblings Daryl and Erika marry each other’s lovers. When one of the lesbians falls pregnant via immaculate conception, both couples must battle their own conflicting feelings as they