Ireland? More like Fyre-land.

Halloween revelers in Dublin felt cheated after showing up en masse for a highly anticipated parade – which wasn’t actually planned.

In one TikTok video with over 100,000 viewsThousands of disillusioned revelers milled aimlessly along O’Connell Street in the Irish capital, as they tried to make sense of the alleged party hoax – which evoked memories of the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas.

“It was funny. The Gardaí (Irish authorities) were trying to clear the street,” said Peter Farrelly, who filmed the fiasco. told the Independent.

Revelers are said to have seen advertisements for the so-called myspirithalloween.comwhich brings together hundreds of events around the world and bills itself as the “largest Halloween website”.

Copy is made up of content creators who remotely click on their keyboards in various, sometimes distant, countries, the reported the Irish Times.

This listing for the Macnas Halloween Parade, which was due to take place in Dublin on the spookiest night of the year, had been widely shared online before October 31 – after making its way up Google’s search rankings.

It later emerged that the advert may have been posted by accident, but not before revelers descended on the city center in anticipation of a hootenanny for the ages.

Their hopes were dashed after police posted a message on social media at 8 p.m. – an hour after the stated start time for the event – that no such party had taken place and that They had to leave the premises immediately.

“Please note that contrary to reports circulating online, there are no Halloween parades planned in Dublin city center this evening or tonight,” the authorities wrote about X. “All those who have gathered on O’Connell Street in anticipation of such a parade are asked to disperse safely.”

Attendees said they felt disconcerted by the event, the famous Fyre Festivala so-called luxury music event that stranded thousands of revelers on an island with nothing but meager food and emergency tents.

“People are waiting for a Halloween parade,” writes one disillusioned man. participant on next to photos of people in costumes moving aimlessly. “No Gardai (police) around, no official announcement, people waiting on the wrong side of the road… Someone has indeed made up a big hoax.”

However, it later emerged that their parade was not intentionally provoked, but was instead the result of an innocent mistake by a writer, the Irish Times reported.

The website’s owner, who identified himself as Nazir Ali, claimed one of his team members searched for events happening in Dublin and found a listing for a previous Halloween parade.

Assuming the party would happen again this year, they copied and pasted details from another venue onto their listing.

“It was our mistake and we should have double-checked to make sure it happened,” Ali said. “We are very embarrassed, very depressed and very sorry.”

It’s not the first time in 2024 that the luck of the Irish hasn’t been on one of Dublin’s busiest shopping streets: earlier this year, a notorious video portal between the bustling strip and the Flatiron District of New York was put into service. closed after series of offensive behaviors took place in front of the camera.

The appalling transatlantic antics included a thug showing New Yorkers a triggering image of the World Trade Center on 9/11, while another provocateur across the Atlantic sported a swastika on his phone, reported The Post.