{"id":780,"date":"2025-10-29T14:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireachinsights.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:17:58","slug":"adults-in-ireland-plan-to-spend-e61-million-on-halloween-this-year-down-e11-5-million-from-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/adults-in-ireland-plan-to-spend-e61-million-on-halloween-this-year-down-e11-5-million-from-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults in Ireland plan to spend \u20ac61 million on Halloween this year, down \u20ac11.5 million from last year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>72% of adults will spend money on Halloween sweets, decorations, costumes, etc. which is down 6% from last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The majority of adults (80%) feel that retailers should reduce single-use plastic packaging for Halloween products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is highest for adults aged 25-34 with 90% agreeing retailers should switch to single-use plastic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 in 4 adults (76%) think that local councils should do more to provide safe, family-friendly Halloween events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly half (49%) of adults are worried about fireworks, bonfires, and safety on Halloween night with 19% very worried.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highest for adults aged 25-34 with 64% worried and 39% of these very worried.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 in 3 (66%) of adults feel that social media has changed the way people celebrate Halloween such as sharing their costumes and themed parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is highest for adults aged 25-34 with 76% feeling it has changed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 in 3 adults (33%) plan to decorate their house this year for Halloween.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more statistics you can visit us at our blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/ireachhq.com\/blog\">https:\/\/ireachhq.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About iReach Insights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">iReach Insights provides a range of research and market intelligence services in Ireland and Europe. iReach has built a Consumer Decisions Research Panel of 40,000 members in Ireland, delivering robust research insights. The survey questions were included in the Nationally Representative iReach Consumer Decisions Omnibus run between the 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 24<sup>th<\/sup> of September and has a 3% Confidence Interval and 95% Confidence Level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Questions asked of adults nationwide:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q1. How much do you plan to spend on Halloween this year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q2. Are rising costs changing how you celebrate Halloween?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q3. Will you decorate your house this year for Halloween?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q4. Should local councils do more to provide safe, family-friendly Halloween events?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q5. How worried are you about fireworks, bonfires, and safety on Halloween night?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q6. Has social media changed the way people celebrate Halloween (e.g., sharing costumes, themed parties)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q7. Should retailers reduce single-use plastic packaging for Halloween products?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>iReach Insights Limited \u2013 Temple Hall, Temple Road, Blackrock, CO. Dublin, IRELAND.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>iReach Managing Director: Oisin Byrne<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nT: 01-214 3740 or email: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"mailto:oisin.byrne@ireachhq.com\">oisin.byrne@ireachhq.com<\/a> or phone 086 8506364<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72% of adults will spend money on Halloween sweets, decorations, costumes, etc. which is down 6% from last year. &nbsp; &nbsp; The majority of adults (80%) feel that retailers should reduce single-use plastic packaging for Halloween products. &nbsp; This is highest for adults aged 25-34 with 90% agreeing retailers should switch to single-use plastic. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}