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PLANS ARE UNDER way for a three-day music festival over the June Bank Holiday weekend in Dun Laoghaire after a planning application was filed last month.
Promoters MCD filed the application on 28 February with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.
The application is for a series of concerts to be held on Friday 31 May, Saturday 1 June and Sunday 2 June at Dun Laoghaire Pier.
The events would be ticketed with a maximum anticipated attendance of 8,000 people on each night.
The tickets would be sold on the basis that under-16s attending the event must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Each day the concert would open at 4pm, with a curfew of 11pm – with the exception of the 10.45pm curfew on Sunday.
Temporary bars would be installed with a licence to serve alcohol, and marquees would be constructed for the event.
In a letter, the commercial executive of Dun Laoghaire Harbour confirmed its consent for MCD to stage an outdoor musical event on the dates in question.
As part of its application, MCD also wrote to the council to say there has been “no substantial or habitual breaches of a licence, or the conditions of a licence granted by any local authority” under relevant laws in the past 24 months for any concerts or event promoted by the company.
From the date the planning application was lodged, interested parties had until 21 March to submit any observations or objections to the plan.
This proposed music festival will be followed in Dun Laoghaire by the Beatyard Festival, which takes place over the August Bank Holiday. Acts confirmed for this festival include Groove Armada, Chvrches and Jungle.
Also taking place this June Bank Holiday weekend is the Forbidden Fruit Festival at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Now in its 8th year, the headliners for this year’s edition are Elbow, Skepta and Mura Masa.
TheJournal.ie has approached MCD for comment, but there is no indication yet as to which acts are lined up for the gigs in Dun Laoghaire.
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8000 people the majority of who will be drunk and high on drugs together on a pier. can’t see anything going wrong there
@Roy Dowling: Pier pressure ?
@Roy Dowling: Roy get a grip. Beatyard over the last few summers has been a massive success. Dun laoghaire is a beautiful place with great people
@David Devane: brilliant
@David Devane: This better be the name of the Festival
@Roy Dowling: you judging others by what you yourself do Roy??
Not everyone is a junky like you, some of us can be responsible when we go to a gig,
but i`ll look out for you seeing as i live out that way – i take it you will be one of the ones floating facedown in the water surrounded by your own puke?
@Pixie McMullen: your alright thanks haven’t drank in Dún Laoghaire in 6 years and I ain’t planning on drinking in the sh!thole any time soon.
@Roy Dowling: So, ye just stick to the drugs when you are out that way so?
@Pixie McMullen: ah stop. Hopefully not. Fun and enjoyment.
@Pixie McMullen: your free to think so if you like.
I want deep house and filthy stomping techno.
Lark in the Park in Blackrock may be returning as well. Free gigs that ended in mid-80s
@Insider at RTE: where did you hear that ?
@Sos: local gossip in business circles in Blackrock. 14 July mooted date afaik
Cracking idea.
I remember that summer in Dublin…..
We are crying out for more festivals like this in Cork. Shame.
@Arthur Pewty: you had techworks last week. Hush now.
Hope everything works out well and nobody takes any drugs or alcohol and enjoy the music sensibly…
@popeye Doyle: no drink ? No drugs ?enjoy the music ? Light hearted attempt at humour from me .
Instagram festival more like
I hope it werks oush!
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