Monday 24 January, 2022
This weekend would have been Electric Picnic weekend. It wasn’t to be.
The music and arts festival confirmed the news in a statement this evening.
The Cabinet Covid-19 sub-committee met today to discuss the next steps in the easing of restrictions.
Laois County Council has said it will still refuse permission to the festival based on the official public-health advice.
The council decided not to grant a licence to the festival earlier this month.
He said NPHET wouldn’t be opposed to large events taking place with only vaccinated people in attendance.
The event’s promoter had said earlier this week he was confident it could go ahead.
Melvin Benn said he based his optimism on the fact no one in Government had told him the event would not be allowed.
Electric Picnic is scheduled to take place in September.
The three-day festival is set to run from 24 to 26 September.
We’ve never missed a muddy field so much before.
Ticket holders can get a refund of their tickets or carry them forward to next year.
Tickets for next year’s festival sold out this afternoon.
The man was arrested at a car park at the festival over the weekend.
What started in 2004 has since become Ireland’s largest music festival.
Last year, bulldozers were brought in to clear thousands of leftover tents after Electric Picnic.
Met Éireann says heavy rain is on the way.
Brandon Webb was put into an induced coma last year after falling ill as a result of MDMA.
Nearly 60,000 people are set to descend upon Stradbally in Laois for the biggest event of the Irish festival calendar.
The warning comes ahead of the festival this weekend.
The festival is already sold out.
It is the first time the festival has sold out before any acts were announced.
The 52 year-old was found dead at his home last week.
“Ireland is less today for his passing,” Leo Varadkar said.
The music promoter died suddenly at his home in Dublin this evening.
Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne knows all about trying to keep festival sites clean – and says we need to stop seeing tents as disposable, and look at what we can do to clean up after ourselves.
More tickets will go on sale in 2019.
One festival attendee said that there was “millions of euro worth of stuff left behind”.
Which trend was Roz Purcell rocking?
This year’s headline acts include Kendrick Lamar, Massive Attack, and The Prodigy.
Are you taking this quiz at home or in a tent?
This is the telly everyone will be talking about tomorrow.
Looks like your Halloween costume is sorted.
More than 50,000 people are set to descend upon Stradbally in Laois for the biggest event of the Irish festival calendar.
