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Mon 07 Jul 2010Drink-free festival: we're just not into not getting out of it
On the evidence of this weekend’s Lovin’ Life festival, Ireland is not ready for alcohol-free social events, writes
ROSITA BOLAND
ALL MUSIC festivals have barometers of success. You could call one of them the “burger-ometer”: the number of burgers sold to peckish festival goers. By early Saturday evening, the total number of burgers sold at Sligo’s Lovin’ Life festival, billed as Ireland’s first alcohol-free festival, was less than 40, according to Brendan Gillan, who was running the sole burger stall at the event.
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