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Poll: Are outdoor music festivals worth the effort?

Is sleeping in a tent and using a portable toilet actually worth it?

TODAY SEES THE Electric Picnic get underway with around 50,000 individuals expected to head down to Stradbally for the event.

Festival goers will be able to enjoy performances from some of the biggest musical acts in the world.

However, the majority (not counting those availing ’boutique camping’ facilities) of will be spending three nights sleeping in a camp site with limited shower facilities and portable toilets.

We want to know what you think, are outdoor music festivals worth the effort? 


Poll Results:

No, I don't think so (3774)
Yes, of course (3392)
Not sure (750)

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    Mute Paddy Mac
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    Jun 4th 2014, 12:52 PM

    I can imagine the scene in the prison canteen “what you in for?” Ara no tv licence, what about you? “Smokin at work” as the garlic importer walks in and there’s a hushed silence at his notoriety! Meanwhile the corrupt bankers are having the lols on the golf course!!

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    Mute Sargon
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    Jun 4th 2014, 12:54 PM

    Dont forget the rapists and hit and runners and robbers and violent assaulters that are laughing at home with their suspended sentences

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    Jun 4th 2014, 12:55 PM

    It’d be funny if it wasn’t true

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    Jun 4th 2014, 12:55 PM

    That made me lol at my desk!

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    Mute Joan Murphy
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    Jun 4th 2014, 12:55 PM

    You are so right ! Ya have to have a laugh cause if ya don’t you’ll just cry all the time ! Life is so hard these days

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    Mute Sargon
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    Jun 4th 2014, 12:57 PM

    Joan – Not if you are a career doler. Life is pretty sweet then

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    Jun 4th 2014, 1:11 PM

    They all smoke in the prison canteen. Its a joke

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    Mute Joan Murphy
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    Jun 4th 2014, 1:14 PM

    True too Sargon

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    Mute f m
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    Jun 4th 2014, 1:11 PM

    Number of dole monkeys convicted for smoking on the bus, train, luas etc… equal zero.

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    Mute Neal Ireland Hello
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    Jun 4th 2014, 1:27 PM

    Living on the dole and having to listen to ignoramuses who come out with stuff like that is probably punishment enough for them.

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    Jun 4th 2014, 1:07 PM

    “Non compliant smoking shelters” in that they are too comfortable for the shunned smokers of this world….

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    Jun 4th 2014, 2:36 PM

    +1

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    Jun 4th 2014, 2:53 PM

    When they finish with smokers they’ll go after something else. Obesity is a big one now so perhaps they’ll only allow overweight people to sit on exercise bikes, and we’ll bring in a fat tax (which will of course will hit the less well off disproportionately)

    On and on it goes until eventually – everyone has a nanny.

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    Jun 4th 2014, 1:59 PM

    2/3 of the offences listed were in Co. Donegal.

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    Jun 4th 2014, 2:32 PM

    1/3 of the offences listed were not in Donegal.

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