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SOME 50,000 PEOPLE will be making their way to Stradbally in Co Laois for the 13th Electric Picnic festival this weekend.
If you’re one of them, here’s what you need to know.
Campsites
Campsites will open at 9am tomorrow and will close at 1pm on Monday. General campervan and family campervan areas will open at 4pm today and close at 1pm on Monday.
On Friday, the Late Night Arena will be open from 12pm-4am, the main arena will be open from 2pm until midnight. On Saturday and Sunday, the Late Night Arena is open from 8am-4am, with the main arena opening from 11am until 2am on Saturday, and on Sunday the main arena will open from 11am until midnight.
Sunday ticket holders can enter from 11am that day, there is no camping permitted for people with these tickets.
Full campsite and ticket information can be read here.
Music
The main stage headliners are as follows: Chemical Brothers on Friday, LCD Soundsystem on Saturday and Lana Del Rey and New Order on Sunday.
Of course, there are several more stages – with lots of other music, comedy, theatre and art displays also happening.
A full list of stage times can be read here.
Weather
According to Met Éireann, there will be sunny spells and showers tomorrow. The showers will be most frequent during the morning, but should be more scattered later.
Highest temperatures in Laois will be around the 17 degrees Celsius mark. It’ll be dry for much of Friday night, but rain will develop on Saturday morning.
Met Éireann is predicting mixed weather over the weekend, with some heavy rain at times. Here’s how they put it:
The finer detail is liable to change, so stay tuned to updates. But, at this stage, it looks as if Saturday will be wet for much of the time, with some heavy and locally thundery rain.
Sorry.
Top temperatures will be 16 to 19 degrees.
Sunday looks set to start off dry, bright and fairly sunny.
However, heavy rain is expected during the evening and early night. A clearance is expected to follow later on Sunday night and early on Monday morning.
So, as usual with an Irish festival, pack your rain jacket and some sun cream.
Transport
If you’re driving or taking public or private transport, a list of options on how to get to the festival is here.
Have fun!
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Hopefully he won’t and leo won’t be taoiseach again
Wishful thinking maby
We can dare to dream
@Richarddoherty: He says he is committed to the continuation of the unprecedented coalition. Lol, of course he is, it’s the only thing he hasn’t spoofed about.
Sorry what support , like we didn’t bail out the banks either , clinging to power at all costs
@Willie Bill Bryan: Remember his spoof attack on Fine Gael policies just before the last election, he somehow thought we had forgotten that his party had propped up Fine Gael in the “confidence & supply” deal for the previous five years whereby they supported every motion FG put before the Dail.
“Fine Gael need to come out of government, they’ve been there too long, they haven’t delivered on key issues such as housing, health and the impact of cost of living on many people.”
“The people want a new government. That means a completely new government”
Michael Martin January 2020.
@Declan Doherty: That’s it, he also accused FG of behaving in a “Jekyll & Hyde” manner to the electorate!!! The neck of him, he’s the looney Jekyll & Hyde character of Irish politics. He’d sell his granny.
@Declan Doherty: and he said he kept getting the same message on the doorsteps that voters wanted FG out of government. He then goes into government with then as equals.he just wanted the gig as taoiseach. He doesn’t really care about housing and the other issues
Martin is delusional. And as for Leo, I don’t see how we can accept a leak and a proven lia_r as Taoiseach. A week is a long time in politics and we have a long time to go before these changes happen.
Martin and Leo will more than likely retire by next General Election, live off their pension and perks, in the mean time they’ll take what ever they can and not give a fiddlers….
Dustin the turkey has better leadership skills and would do a better job than Mehole.
The problem is this current rainbow, is going to hand Sinn Fein, if they do get in a very poisonous chalice. I can see Micheál surviving a heave although Leo might be pushed under a bus as well although he has a few that will take the hit for him. When the dust settles and the covid bill has to be paid then we will see, who can make lemon curd toast not taste bitter.
@Twitruser2021: that why they’re throwing money around like confetti so the country will be well and truly broke when sinn Fein win the next election the mess will need a big shake to get the repayments in and the middle don’t have it any more
@Twitruser2021: Leo could be out after investigation of his leak. Also damaged by Dublin Bay South carry on.
@Peter McGlynn: That’s not going to happen Peter. Those guys are untouchable.
Peaky blinders!
The problem is this current rainbow, is going to hand Sinn Fein, if they do get in a very poisonus chalice. I can see Micheál surviving a heave although Leo might be pushed under a bus as well although he has a few that will take the hit for him. When the dust settles and the covid bill has to be paid then we will see, who can make lemon curd toast not taste bitter.
Michael gets a Taoiseach’s pension before he loses the next election and gets fired out by the rest of his buddies and rent-a-gob Leo “leading the nation” as Taoiseach into another election which might get him personally by the fifth count again!
Dead man walking …we got a dead man walking here.
@BK: looking more than likely its gonna be an inside job that’s gonna take him out. Every press conference it gets worse and worse. Remember the whole “The banks weren’t bailed out”…
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