# festival - Wednesday 10 November, 2021
# August Bank Holiday
# August Bank Holiday
The popular festival last took place in the summer of 2019.
# festival - Monday 4 October, 2021
# Glastonbury
# Glastonbury
Next year’s festival will take place in June.
# festival - Wednesday 8 September, 2021
# It's Back
# It's Back
The festival is set to take place over the bank holiday weekend from 22 to 25 October.
# festival - Friday 27 August, 2021
# Tent Talks
# Tent Talks
The Cabinet Covid-19 sub-committee met today to discuss the next steps in the easing of restrictions.
# festival - Wednesday 25 August, 2021
# Electric Picnic
# Electric Picnic
The council decided not to grant a licence to the festival earlier this month.
# festival - Tuesday 24 August, 2021
# Outdoor Events
# Outdoor Events
He said NPHET wouldn’t be opposed to large events taking place with only vaccinated people in attendance.
# festival - Thursday 5 August, 2021
# Live Music
Laois County Council yesterday refused to grant a licence to Electric Picnic. Organisers of the festival say ticket-holders will be contacted over the next week. Give Us the Night group wrote to government members calling for non-socially distanced trial events next month.
# festival - Wednesday 23 June, 2021
# What's Another Year?
# What's Another Year?
The music festival in Co Waterford has been rescheduled for July 2022.
# festival - Saturday 1 May, 2021
# Racing
From The42
# Racing
The 2021 Festival finished today.
# festival - Thursday 21 January, 2021
# Cancelled
# Cancelled
Organisers Michael and Emily Eavis said they were “so sorry” to have to cancel the event.
# festival - Wednesday 9 December, 2020
# Your Say
# Your Say
Tickets for the festival Longitude scheduled to take place in July 2021 have already almost fully sold out.
# festival - Saturday 5 September, 2020
# Ep2020
# Ep2020
We’ve never missed a muddy field so much before.
# festival - Monday 13 July, 2020
# Festival
# Festival
The journalist was asking whether a 14-day quarantine applied to her arrival into Ireland from Britain for a festival.
# festival - Tuesday 16 June, 2020
# Easing Lockdown
# Easing Lockdown
Cinemas could reopen in August, said Taoiseach Leo Varadkar today.
# festival - Friday 13 March, 2020
# Racing
From The42
# Racing
Four wins on the final day at Cheltenham saw Willie Mullins named the Festival ’s top trainer.
# festival - Thursday 27 February, 2020
# Risk Assessment
# Risk Assessment
The festival is due to start in two weeks.
# festival - Friday 3 January, 2020
# Column
From The42
# Column
Our columnist on the prospect of change for the March racing showpiece.
# festival - Sunday 15 September, 2019
# Human Rights Arts Festival
# Human Rights Arts Festival
A unique human rights arts festival run by Smashing Times takes place in Dublin this month.
# festival - Friday 30 August, 2019
# Festival
# Festival
Nearly 60,000 people are set to descend upon Stradbally in Laois for the biggest event of the Irish festival calendar.
# festival - Saturday 10 August, 2019
# Jack Downey
# Jack Downey
Large crowds gathered in Clonmel today for Jack Downey’s funeral mass.
# Events
# Events
A goat fair and a Cavan food festival are just some of the events taking place.
# festival - Tuesday 6 August, 2019
# Cork
# Cork
19-year-old Jack Downey is believed to have taken a substance at the Indiependence music festival in Cork.
# festival - Saturday 3 August, 2019
# Gaze Festival
# Gaze Festival
The festival’s curator talks us through its highlights.
# festival - Friday 2 August, 2019
# In It Together
# In It Together
Many fans complained of long delays in getting to the Waterford festival.
# festival - Saturday 29 June, 2019
# Behind The Scenes
# Behind The Scenes
The five-day street performance festival is taking place in Dublin and Cork next month.
# festival - Thursday 27 June, 2019
# Trad Festival
# Trad Festival
The annual event, manned and organised by over 1,000 volunteers, saw up to half a million people attend last year.
# festival - Sunday 9 June, 2019
# Great Music In Irish Houses
# Great Music In Irish Houses
The Great Music in Irish Houses festival is going into its 49th year.
# festival - Friday 24 May, 2019
# My Love: Intermezzo
# My Love: Intermezzo
The film was directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, who directed Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
# festival - Thursday 25 April, 2019
# Collision
# Collision
Artist Nic Green created the show Cock and Bull before Brexit – but the work, which takes apart the words of politicians, is just as pertinent now.
# festival - Tuesday 9 April, 2019
# Promise
From The42
# Promise
There’s a strong Connacht contingent included in Peter Smyth’s 26-man group.
# festival - Monday 25 March, 2019
# Love Sensation
From The Daily Edge
# festival - Tuesday 12 March, 2019
# Heed Your Hunch
From The42
# Heed Your Hunch
Check out Thom Malone’s Heed Your Hunch picks for ‘St Patrick’s Thursday’ — a nickname he’s not too keen on.
# festival - Wednesday 23 January, 2019
# Front Row
# Front Row
Highlights will include the Irish premieres of Papi Chulo and Eighth Grade.
# festival - Saturday 12 January, 2019
# Ancient East
# Ancient East
Fáilte Ireland wants to attract a further 100,000 visitors to the country through the festival as part of the Ancient East initiative.
# festival - Saturday 5 January, 2019
# Herstory
# Herstory
Herstory Light Festival is an annual light festival which celebrates women and girls on Nollaig na mBan.
# festival - Monday 3 December, 2018
# All Gone
# All Gone
It is the first time the festival has sold out before any acts were announced.
# festival - Sunday 28 October, 2018
# Schools Rugby
From The42
# Schools Rugby
The former Ulster and Ireland wing has partnered up with Louis Ludik for ‘Rugby Rising.’
# festival - Monday 17 September, 2018
# Vietnam
# Vietnam
The victims tested positive for an unspecified drug.
# festival - Saturday 8 September, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne knows all about trying to keep festival sites clean – and says we need to stop seeing tents as disposable, and look at what we can do to clean up after ourselves.
# festival - Saturday 1 September, 2018
# Snaps
# Snaps
This year’s headline acts include Kendrick Lamar, Massive Attack, and The Prodigy.
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