Electric Picnic campers are being warned to prepare for rain overnight or early tomorrow morning

FlineBoxes will be available throughout the weekend in the campervan, red, and yellow car parks, and remain open into Monday morning to support those driving home.

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Check out these photos as preparations are well advanced for this weekends Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival in Stradbally.

“It’ll be jumper on, jumper off kind of weather”, says the Carlow Weatherman Alan O’Reilly.

Speaking in Stradbally today, the Electric Picnic Director Melvin Benn said: “It was absolutely shocking what happened to The Mary Wallopers.”

"Stradbally is the centre of the world for this weekend” -  The Director of the Electric Picnic Melvin Benn.

The issue of performers' sound being cut off on stage while making political statements while performing has been brought to the forefront after The Mary Wallopers claimed they were "cut off" during their performance at the Victorious Festival in Portsmouth for displaying a Palestinian flag on stage.

If you're lucky enough to be making the trek to Co Laois this weekend, keep reading to find out everything you need to know before the festival

The expected crowd will provide a major financial injection into the local economy as local hotels, B&Bs, glamping and campsites have been booked out for months.

A shipwreck for a stage is set to host some fantastic groups and artists at the Electric Picnic.

The local choir will be performing on its home turf during the festival weekend.

The back-of-house testing can be carried out on drugs connected with a person brought to a medical tent and on drugs placed in "surrender bins".

There’ll be something for everybody’s taste buds in the Theatre of Food at the Electric Picnic

Junior Brother and The Frank and Walters will be among the acts performing in Fishtown.

An opportunity for anyone to perform on stage at this year's Electric Picnic.

The festival’s arena of ideas showcases the creativity, emotional intelligence and human connection that no machine can imitate.

The Croí is described as the soulful sanctuary at the heart of Electric Picnic

ONE of the UK and Ireland’s favourite stand-up comedians Dara Ó Briain is making his Electric Picnic debut this year.

From 11pm to 4am  Friday to Sunday, the Mother stage will be transformed into a high-octane queer dance party

There will be mock elections and voting competitions.

The Folly Festival in Cullohill this coming Friday and Saturday 4 and 5 July.

This will not be Kneecap's first performance at Electric Picnic. The group played at the 2024 festival.

LAOIS is fast becoming the go-to county for music festivals.  With the headliners already announced for both the Electric Picnic and Forest Fest, now comes the headline acts for the annual Folly in Cullohill.

Melvyn Benn dismissed claims that Electric Picnic is ‘anti-competitive’.

Hozier, Chappell Roan, Sam Fender, Fatboy Slim and Kings of Leon have been announced as headliners for the festival, which takes place from August 29th-31st in Stradbally, Co Laois.

A limited number of tickets for this year’s Electric Picnic go on sale from 12 noon today, Monday 7 April from Ticketmaster.

In a surprise announcement by the festival on Friday, the first five headline acts were announced. 

EP Republic has given notice of its intention to apply for a licence to hold this year’s outdoor musical event, Electric Picnic, at Stradbally Hall Estate from Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 August.

A MAN who “drank his head off” after sneaking into last year’s Electric Picnic in Stradbally ended up before Judge Andrew Cody in Portlaoise District Court last week on a public order offence. Garda Sergeant JJ Kirby told the court that at 8.

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THE community of Stradbally is being invited along to the town’s Electric Picnic Residents’ Committee annual general meeting on Wednesday 19 February. The meeting is taking place in Saint Colman’s National School and beginning at 7. 30pm.

A MAN who was detected soaking wet after trying to gain illegal access to this year's Electric Picnic by crossing a local river came before Portlaoise District Court on public order offences.Garda Sergeant JJ Kirby said that at 8.30pm on 17 August, ...

The festival will return to its more traditional summer slot between Friday, August 29th and Sunday, August 31st 2025.

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Two Drugs.ie tents are open from 11am to 9pm Friday through Sunday, providing 30 hours of harm reduction support onsite delivered by trained volunteers.

Loyalty scheme and general admission tickets will be available, along with family camping, campervan and caravan tickets. 

Festival-goers will be encouraged to donate their empty bottles and cans for charity at Electric Picnic

From The Wolfe Tones and The Mary Wallopers, to Kylie and CMAT, the festival has something for everybody this year, and hopefully not too many clashes.

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Russell Howard will headline on the Saturday, while Katherine Ryan will headline the Sunday night

This year's festival will take place on August 16th to 18th