‘Nightmare at Inchicore’
The Nightmare Realm, Europe’s most awarded Halloween attraction is returning to a new, expanded home at Royal Liver Retail Park, Inchicore, Dublin.
Running for 21 terrifying nights from October 4th to November 2nd, the 2025 Realm features five brand-new, cinematic haunted mazes, an expanded HalloweenTown, and over 150 live performers in a fully immersive, festival-style setting.
The Nightmare Realm, which is sponsored by Fanta, is an adrenaline-fueled Irish production like no other —fusing Hollywood-style set design, cinematic production, live performance, and chilling storytelling into one unforgettable experience.
Every year, the Realm is rebuilt from the ground up. This dedication to constant reinvention keeps the event fresh and unmissable for fans, and it’s fast becoming Ireland’s new modern Halloween tradition. Like a phantom, it appears in a new location every few years. In 2025, that location is a sprawling 7,000 sqm indoor/outdoor site at Royal Liver Retail Park, right beside the Kylemore Luas stop.
This year, visitors will descend into the chilling lore of ‘The Curse of the Five’—a haunting mystery that unites all five mazes into a single, lore-driven storyline. Guests will uncover the fate of five cursed souls across these original experiences. Mazes include: Gallows Hill Asylum, Trappers, Clowns in the Attic, SILO C, and A Haunting at Blackmore.
The immersive festival?style area features new interactive elements: photo ops with Halloween characters, food trucks, a cloakroom, and three new haunted shops Spell & Spindle, Cauldron & Coffee, and the Fanta Fright Cinema and ‘The Tree of the Dead’ which proves that love isn’t dead after all. For the first time ever, there will be two fire shows on select nights by Fuego Fatale, as well as nightly entertainment from the House of Swag dance troupe and the Realm’s resident aerialists.
Karl O’Connor, owner of The Nightmare Realm says, ‘Halloween isn’t just one night—it’s a season, a subculture, a celebration of the weird and the wonderful.’
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