At Canton Caseys Upstairs · 41 Pearse Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
Only the published dates are confirmed for this programme.
The Haunted Westmeath podcast records live on Samhain’s eve at Canton Caseys Upstairs in Mullingar on Thursday 29 October 2026, doors 7:30pm for an 8pm start. Host Olga Aughey and guests spend two hours working through chilling local legends, haunted history and ghostly encounters drawn from Mullingar and across Westmeath.
The recording leans on local folklore rather than generic horror, with stories rooted in specific Westmeath places, and the audience is invited to join in, sharing their own paranormal experiences or half remembered family stories as part of the night. It runs as part of the Home of Halloween’s Samhain in the Heartlands festival programme, staged in association with Westmeath and Longford county councils as part of the counties’ wider Halloween season of events. The format sits somewhere between a pub storytelling night and a podcast recording, with the live audience part of what ends up in the finished episode. Children under 16 are welcome once accompanied by a parent or guardian, though the subject matter, ghost stories and local tragedy, suits an older crowd best. Doors open half an hour before the show for anyone who wants a seat close to the action.
Canton Caseys is on Pearse Street in Mullingar town centre, with the event held in the upstairs bar, an easy walk from the rest of the town on a Thursday night out.
Samhain in the Heartlands brings a run of Halloween season events to Mullingar and the wider county each October, of which this podcast recording is one of the more distinctly local nights. There is more to see in Mullingar and across Co. Westmeath.
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