{"id":3858,"date":"2017-10-18T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2017-11-12T00:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:21:17","slug":"frights-in-our-forests-this-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/frights-in-our-forests-this-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Frights in Our Forests This Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Coillte\u00a0were delighted to facilitate two fantastic events at our forests\u00a0over the Halloween weekend.<\/h4>\n<p>Firstly a two night scare event \u201cThe Hazelwood Haunting\u201d was held in Sligo. Over two nights thousands of\u00a0visitors were scared out of their wits as Hazelwood forest came to life after dark with strange sounds and spooky ghosts around every corner. \u00a0The event raised money for Friends of Sligo General Hospital and Carns National school. \u00a0Eamon McAndrew Organiser thanked Coillte \u201c<em>Hazelwood Forest is a magical place, which is now forevermore an enchanted space, but always remember to respect and give grace, and most of all, leave no trace<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3856\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/media\/2017\/10\/hazelwoodhalloween2.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of children in fancy dress at Hazelwwod forest\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halloween at Hazelwood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pictured: Eamonn McAndrew(Organiser), Ava, Keelan, Mason, Ella and Michael Donlon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Samhain Amhainn Festival got underway in Ballina, with Belleek forest being the location for a frightening event organised by Belleek Enhancement Committee, Ballina Stephenites and Ballina Chamber of Commerce. The scary woods walk was the highlight of the festival and drew rave reviews from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held for three consecutive nights in Ballina beginning on Friday with huge crowds attending on each night. Mags Martin from Ballina Chamber of Commerce and Organiser said \u201c<em>The Scary Woods Walk Team would like to especially thank Coillte for all their support of this scarifying event in Belleek woods. Ballina is extremely proud of the woods and as a community it is great to be able to welcome people from all around the country to our town and our treasure<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to our estates manager Michael Donlon and all the team in Coilllte&#8217;s Business Area Unit 1 for making these spooktacular events such\u00a0a big success.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3857\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3857\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/media\/2017\/10\/samhainabhainn-belleek-woods.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of crowd at Samhain Abhainn Festival at Coillte's Belleek wood\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samhain Abhainn Festival at Coillte&#8217;s Belleek Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Pictured: Cyril Collins (Belleek Enhancement Committee), Mags Martin (Ballina Chamber of Commerce), Tony Neary (Ballina Stephenites), Michael Donlon (Coillte)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Coillte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coillte is a commercial forestry company, owned by the State, that manages approximately 7% of the country\u2019s land. Coillte operate three strong businesses from this land \u2013 their core forestry business, a wood panels manufacturing business MEDITE SMARTPLY and a land solutions business. Coillte export to over 30 countries worldwide and in the financial year 31 December 2016 \u00a0generated EBITDA of \u20ac98.3 million. Coillte\u2019s vision is to be the best forestry and land solutions company in Europe. To find out more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coillte.ie\/development\/\"><strong>www.coillte.ie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coillte\u00a0were delighted to facilitate two fantastic events at our forests\u00a0over the Halloween weekend. Firstly a two night scare event \u201cThe Hazelwood Haunting\u201d was held in Sligo. Over two nights thousands of\u00a0visitors were scared out of their wits as Hazelwood forest came to life after dark with strange sounds and spooky ghosts around every corner. \u00a0The &#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frights in Our Forests This Halloween - Coillte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frights in Our Forests This Halloween - Coillte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Coillte\u00a0were delighted to facilitate two fantastic events at our forests\u00a0over the Halloween weekend. 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