CREATE: GAA art with the whole family on the Creepy Creator Halloween Tours at the GAA Museum, Croke Park, running from 25-31 October. The tour will begin with a child-friendly Croke Park stadium tour, where you will get a chance to visit the team dressing rooms and run out pitchside through the players’ tunnel. An arts and crafts session in the den will give young visitors a chance to decorate and take home their own masterpiece. Tickets for the tour also include entry to the GAA Museum where you can learn the history of Gaelic games and more. For more information see www.crokepark.ie

TASTE Máire and Paul Flynn’s new one-night-only set menu at the Tannery, Dungarvan, Co Waterford. This tasting menu runs the first Thursday of every month. The set menu will be the only menu available in the upstairs restaurant, with the downstairs wine bar open as usual. This menu will also work for bigger groups or celebrations and last orders are at 8.30pm to allow for travelling guests to make it to Dungarvan. The first Thursday menu featured lobster arancini, local seafood stew with a roasted garlic cream to whet your appetite. For more information visit www.tannery.ie

ENJOY the Achill International Harp Festival from 25-28 October. The days will be filled with recitals, masterclasses, dance and song workshops, talks, walks, exhibitions and archives. Tlen Huicani of Mexico are a five-piece band who will be topping the bill this year. Non-harping musicians can attend the mixed instrument workshops and non-musicians can go on a guided nature walk to take in the Achill landscape. There will also be nightly concerts followed by the late-night festival club. There’s even a four-day harp-making workshop where you can make your own Achill harp. For further information visit www.achillharpfestival.ie

EXPERIENCE the 2019 Macnas Halloween Parade on Sunday 27 October on the streets of Galway. This year’s event is entitled “Danse Macabre” and will kick off at 5.30pm from Macnas’s home on the NUI Galway campus, waving its way through Galway city taking the audience on a journey with a boy called Conor. The Macnas creative ensemble is comprised of 45 professional artists, 300 volunteers and hundreds of performers. The parade will feature Macnas giant creations, pyrotechnics, bespoke costumes and performances live and to original music. This is a free event. For more information on the parade visit www.macnas.ie

SAVOUR what Kilkenny city has to offer in the form of talks and workshops, the savour and wellness stages, dining events, the market stalls and something to suit the kids too at the end of the traditional harvest season. The festival celebrates local artisan products and the local restaurant and café culture. It is an informal gathering on the city’s medieval parade public space in front of Kilkenny Castle from 22-28 October. There will be a host of people taking the stage including Roz Purcell, Kathyrn Thomas, Rory O’Connell and Darren Kennedy. For more information see www.savourkilkenny.com