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# Music Festival

This year
2023
No more admissions to take place today at Forever Young festival due to weather
Admission to the festival tomorrow will be dependent on weather.
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43.9k
Jul 15th 2023, 5:50 PM
Last year
2022
Festival organisers in Spain 'devastated' after stage collapse kills one person and injures 17
Heavy winds are believed to have brought the stage down in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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44.9k
Aug 13th 2022, 9:37 AM
All time
Pilot music festival gets go ahead to serve alcohol
Gavin James will headline the outdoor gigs at Royal Hospital Kilmainham early next month.
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18.5k
Jun 23rd 2021, 5:31 PM
Drug testing at music festivals will be ready to be rolled out by summer 2021
Junior Minister Frank Feighan says a working group has looked at the issues of drug testing and amnesty bins.
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49.4k
Dec 29th 2020, 12:05 AM
All Together Now promises 'no repeat' of traffic issues as it announces tickets for 2020
Tickets for the 2020 edition of the Waterford festival will go on sale next week.
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Aug 22nd 2019, 12:15 PM
Gardaí find weapons after dispersing large crowd of youths outside Dublin venue
A man in his 20s was arrested in connection with the incident outside the venue.
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Jul 8th 2019, 8:29 AM
19-year-old man dies after taking ill at music festival in Meath
The man was taken to hospital in Dublin where he was pronounced dead.
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65.6k
Sep 30th 2018, 9:06 AM
Steel cups and banning plastic cutlery: How music festivals are trying to combat waste
Litter is a big problem at many festivals.
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17.5k
Aug 18th 2018, 11:00 AM
Saint Sister just released a new music video by the same director as Hozier's 'Take Me To Church'
It’ll make you nostalgic for lost love, even if you’ve always been a single cat lady.
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2.3k
Aug 3rd 2018, 12:06 PM
4 events for... fun-seekers during the summer's last long weekend
The All Ireland Scarecrow Championship and Fleet Foxes in Co Waterford, your weekend plans sorted.
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Aug 1st 2018, 4:11 PM
Iconic '90s music festival Féile is making a comeback this year (with a fancier feel)
Féile was the first multi-day rock festival to take place in Ireland.
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24.7k
Apr 24th 2018, 8:04 PM
DJ killed and three injured as stage collapses at Brazil music festival
The collapse was blamed on adverse weather conditions.
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28.4k
Dec 18th 2017, 7:56 AM
More than 22,000 evacuated after fire erupts at main stage of Spanish music festival
One side of the stage was consumed by flames but no one was injured, organisers said.
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Jul 30th 2017, 9:35 AM
Reports of festival goers 'getting crushed' in massive queues on the way in to Longitude
Reports on social media suggested that people were queuing up for well over an hour to gain entry to the festival.
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47.5k
Jul 14th 2017, 6:51 PM
Swedish music festival cancelled for 2018 following rape and sexual assault reports
Four rapes and 23 sexual assaults were reported at last weekend’s festival
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Jul 3rd 2017, 4:21 PM
13 pictures of bands at Glastonbury 2007 that'll take you right back
It was the year of Kate and Pete… and the Kaiser Chiefs.
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10.9k
Jun 23rd 2017, 7:06 PM
'Closer to The Hunger Games than Coachella': Fyre Festival hit with $100m lawsuit
The festival was cancelled despite thousands flying to the Caribbean.
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22.8k
May 2nd 2017, 9:45 AM
A Ja Rule-organised festival promised music and models on the beach, instead it turned into chaos
Tickets for the festival cost up to $12,000 with VIP packages rising to $250,000.
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56.7k
Apr 30th 2017, 9:50 AM
The xx and Duran Duran have just been announced for this year's Electric Picnic
Her name is Riooooo and she dances on the saaaaaand!
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16.2k
Mar 23rd 2017, 11:38 AM
26-year-old man dies after falling ill at UK music festival
The man collapsed at a campsite last night.
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27.3k
Aug 27th 2016, 4:13 PM
Electric Picnic has made a lovely gesture to the good people of Stradbally
A new football pitch for all your troubles!
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10.9k
Jun 30th 2016, 1:44 PM
Garda awarded €30,000 after being hit on the head with stone 'the size of a melon'
The court heard the tinnitus was ongoing and the garda needed to avoid loud noise situations since being hit 5 years ago.
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Jun 28th 2016, 7:02 PM
Mud, traffic jams, queues and more mud: Glastonbury is no craic so far
Some clever people brought wheelie bins and airport trolleys to transport their gear.
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27.3k
Jun 23rd 2016, 10:26 AM
Now Swedish police face allegations of covering up refugee sex attacks
Police hadn’t mentioned the August incidents at the We are Sthlm festival until newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported on them.
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Jan 11th 2016, 9:14 PM
'My life is over, I forgot to pack toilet roll': Essential festival phrases ... in Irish
“An shifteálfá mo chara? … Cad fúmsa mar sin?”
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Dec 25th 2015, 2:00 PM
The 8 devastating stages of failing to get Glastonbury tickets
Don’t mention the war.
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3.1k
Oct 4th 2015, 10:42 AM
These Gardaí were caught raving at Electric Picnic last weekend
YEAH YEAH FUNKY YEAH!
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Sep 10th 2015, 5:59 PM
'Should we just sit at home twiddling our thumbs just because we have children?'
Should people have to hang up their wellie boots just because they have kids?
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Sep 6th 2015, 10:30 AM
21 hilarious ways Twitter suggests you can experience #EPathome
Create the festival atmosphere at home.
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Sep 4th 2015, 5:35 PM
9 wreck-the-heads you are guaranteed to meet at Electric Picnic
Because nothing’s perfect.
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Sep 3rd 2015, 1:16 PM
Lily Allen 'grateful to be alive' after gas explosion in Glastonbury caravan
She warned festival-goers to be careful with gas stoves.
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Jun 21st 2015, 3:37 PM
Lily Allen says she's 'grateful to be alive' after a gas explosion at Glastonbury
The singer is currently camping out ahead of the music festival this week.
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Jun 21st 2015, 2:37 PM
10 desperately important things you need to know about this year's Coachella
CLINT EASTWOOD IS THERE.
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7.5k
Apr 12th 2015, 11:30 AM
Raver found wandering naked in woods four days after music festival
The man had been at the TomorrowWorld festival in Georgia.
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Oct 10th 2014, 9:57 PM
The 8 extremely emotional stages of Electric Picnic FOMO
We’re here for you.
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Aug 28th 2014, 9:30 PM
This man dancing joyously at a festival is the happiest person in the world
He’s the male version of Longitude girl. And we love him.
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4.8k
Aug 4th 2014, 11:30 AM
7 simple hacks to improve your music festival experience
Don’t spare the hand sanitiser.
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24.5k
Aug 2nd 2014, 1:00 PM
Airline forced to apologise after 'warning passengers to flush their drugs'
The flight was carrying people home from a music festival.
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3.6k
Jul 31st 2014, 1:45 PM
Hozier got the Longitude crowd to sing Happy Birthday to his 12-year-old neighbour
Sweet.
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3.5k
Jul 19th 2014, 4:38 PM
Here's the truth about THAT viral 'Glastonbury' photo
Hint: It’s not from Glastonbury.
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Jun 30th 2014, 8:22 AM
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