Thousands lined streets of Irish capital waiting for wrongly advertised parade after website’s ‘human error’

A Pakistan-based company has issued an apology to Dubliners after a “human error” on its events website led to thousands of people turning up on the Irish capital’s main thoroughfare for a nonexistent Halloween parade.

Footage on Thursday night showed throngs of people lining both sides of O’Connell Street waiting for a supposed procession of giant Halloween puppets made by one of Ireland’s best-known theatre groups, the Galway performance company Mácnas.