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Sunday 29 May 2022
The festival begins next weekend – Gardaí are advising people not to fall for ‘print-at-home’ ticket scams.
We highly recommend you go and see Pillow Queens and Kojaque.
Probably the last person you ever expected to see on the Electric Picnic lineup.
Litter is a big problem at many festivals.
Go plastic-free at Longitude and Electric Picnic.
Oh, if only we knew then what we know now.
A few of the websites seem determined to sell us heels.
Might as well make a holiday out of it.
One festival managed to make a big improvement on last year’s lineup.
This is the fourth year in a row that the festival has sold out.
From The Daily Edge
Most people seem to be delighted with the line up.
Dua Lipa, Ben Howard, St Vincent, and Chvrches will also be appearing in Stradbally.
There have been some excellent headliners over the years.
The Ana Liffey Drug Project made its debut at this year’s festival – and it proved to be a busy three days for the volunteers.
The Path homelessness charity, which helps the homeless in Dublin, trawled through the campsite once the festival ended.
Welcome home, you grubby lot.
Miriam is every woman. It’s all in Miriam.
The 55,000 people who attended the festival will generate at least 400 tonnes of waste.
The crowd wanted it. The crowd got it.
Tickets for the festival sold out within minutes back in March.
From energetic crowds to the best one-liners.
If you’re camping at Electric Picnic this weekend, are you planning on bringing your tent back with you?
How to get there, some of our recommendations, and what kind of weather you should prepare for…
If I have ever stopped you and asked for your assistance thank you for being sound, writes Sinéad Burke.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers and the Green Party: A simpler time.
Gardaí said they have a “comprehensive” security plan in place.
We’ve teamed up with Heineken Live Your Music to offer two weekend passes to the sold-out festival.
The owners say there would be no animosity towards anybody who returned the house.
Do you go to Electric Picnic for the music or for the cans?
Both plaintiffs alleged they had been shocked and distressed.
One festival has only three female artists this year.
BORIS JOHNSON’S CRITICS are out in force this weekend saying discontent in the Conservative Party is growing as the partygate scandal rumbles on.
Former cabinet minister David Davis said his colleagues “see their own seats disappearing” as Tory popularity continues to wane.
The comments come as Johnson faces mounting calls to resign following the publication of Sue Gray’s investigation into Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns.
However, Johnson has survived political storms several times in the past.
So, today we’re asking do you think Boris Johnson will survive Partygate?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
FLAC’s Eilis Barry says LGBTQI+ rights have come a long way, but much still needs to be done.
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