Trick or Treating is being put on hold this year to help stop the spread of Covid-19.
Minister Simon Harris says the only fright we should be giving each other is from Halloween games.
Not the fright of people getting sick.
But these boys from O'Connell's school in Dublin are disappointed:
One boy said, "Just come on, let us trick or treat, it's not even fair on the kids who have costumes ready since like September."
He added "...because then their ma, or their dad will have to return it"
Another girl says, "We can't do it this year as the government are advising."
But she's holding out for 2021: "I hope we can do it next year."
Important fact to remember about #Halloween and why trick or treating should not take place is not that it presents huge risk to children, it represents unnecessary risk to householders. We would usually get 150+ callers on the night, exposure like this makes no sense right now.
— Ken Curtin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@kencurtin) October 12, 2020
Cut Your Social Contacts This Halloween
Fine Gael TD Colm Burke is advising people not to trick or treat.
He says everything must be done to stop Level 5, and that means keeping contacts lows:
"I wouldn't advise it because it's important [to keep your contacts low]"
"So at the weekend I was speaking to two elderly people who have not gone out, have not mixed with people."
"But both of them, for some reason or another, have been identified as positive."
"They don't know where the contacts were because they say they've barely gone outside the house."
"But yet they've contracted it."
