Same here and at midnight the bells had to be rung outside the house up and down the laneway...I guess people around here wanted to let the Pooka know halloween was over.
If I were to be honest, my first thoughts were that it's just one of the millions of images that circulate the internet, posted by people who think the run of the mill things that happen in life are tragic and need some sort of inspirational picture.
That won't make a difference to the pen pushers, the only correlation they are capable of making is that it looks good on paper if a person is doing a course instead of being on the live register.
RE: halloween is from ireland
Same here and at midnight the bells had to be rung outside the house up and down the laneway...I guess people around here wanted to let the Pooka know halloween was over.