Electric Picnic 2026: Saturday stage times for all the top areas, weather forecast and more
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Electric Picnic 2026: Map, weather, stage times and more, here’s everything you need to know
Whether you are a seasoned festivalgoer or an Electric Picnic newbie – here is everything you need to know before heading to Ireland’s biggest music festival
Electric Picnic 2026: Stage times for all the main areas
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All Together Now festival 2026: Stage times, ticket information, how to get there and more
From Pulp and Cardinals to Kneecap and Self Esteem, the seventh edition of All Together Now is jam-packed. Here is everything you need to know
Electric Picnic 2026: Wolf Alice, The Saw Doctors and Djo among acts added to line-up
Irish acts including The Mary Wallopers, Florence Road and Madra Salach have joined the line-up too
Kneecap and Christy Moore concerts help Vicar Street venue once again record a profit
The Mary Wallopers also played a four-night run at the venue in December as part of their Seven Drunken Nights Christmas tour
Katie Ball of Just Mustard: ‘I don’t know if being the centre of attention comes naturally. I keep doing it anyway’
Despite signing to the ultra-hip Brooklyn-based label Partisan, the introverted band have decided against leaving their hometown of Dundalk
‘I’m only a symbol of the movement. Ye matter’ - Catherine Connolly addresses support concert at Vicar Street
Christy Moore, Huartan and Mary Wallopers among a who’s who of Irish musical acts backing left wing candidate at Monday gig
The Last Dinner Party: ‘People think they have the right, because they’re anonymous, to say the most awful things
The chart-toppers have released their second album, From the Pyre, which channels the uneasy spirit of the classic 1973 folk-horror movie
Pillow Queens: ‘When we’re seeing trans friends’ rights being taken we absolutely let the music take a back seat’
Irish band reflects on what makes them different, feeling a ‘new energy’ and how their work has resonated with people
Why are Irish artists such as Graham Linehan, Sally Rooney so prominent in UK free speech wars?
Sally Rooney, Graham Linehan, Kneecap and John Boyne have all been caught up in controversy
Bands pull out of UK music festival after The Mary Wallopers say they were ‘cut off’
Irish folk group displayed Palestinian flag on stage in Portsmouth
Útóipe Cheilteach: The Mary Wallopers and more on Ireland’s ‘politically offensive’ underground folk scene
Celtic Utopia, Dennis Harvey’s new film, sets out to see ‘how young people are interacting with politics and social history with their music’
The Mary Wallopers at Fairview Park in Dublin: How to get there, stage times, ticket information and more
Everything you need to know about the band’s concert at Fairview Park on Friday
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The Pogues at 3Arena: Applause rang out into the night, the crowd singing their way out on to the quays
A stacked line-up including members of Fontaines DC, Lankum and The Mary Wallopers delivers a brilliantly infectious performance
James Vincent McMorrow: ‘I’ve been building back a version of me that made me happy rather than crying every night’
The Dubliner isn’t the first name that comes to mind as a songwriter for a boy-band megastar. But working with Louis Tomlinson was just what he needed after his record-label disappoinment
Phil Coulter and John Sheahan vs Lankum and The Mary Wallopers: Sit back and enjoy the music-industry hatred
What a pleasure to observe the flare-up between the composer and last surviving Dubliner and the drone-folk maestros and bouncy balladeers
Electric Picnic 2024: Saturday stage times for top areas, weather forecast and more
When and where to catch Calvin Harris, Kodaline, Lankum, Kneecap, Blindboy and more
The anxious camper’s first music festival experience: I brought ear plugs, a sleep mask and a book
Stepping outside your comfort zone and into a tent at a music festival isn’t for the faint of heart
Electric Picnic 2024: Weather, main stage times, access map, ticket information and more
Everything you need to know about Ireland’s largest music festival taking place from August 16th-18th
We need to make sure the invasive weed of English-style nationalism can’t grow over our songs, stories and symbols
Rhetoric that was once anathema to Irishness is being given a green paintjob by online grifters
All Together Now 2024: The weekend in pictures
From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun to crowd surfing at Sing Along Social, here are some of the best snaps from this year’s festival
All Together Now 2024 highs and lows: Barry Can’t Swim ends up bowled over, a Glastonbury bad habit creeps in
From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun and a smoking-belching dragon to headliner confusion and annoying festivalgoers
The Mary Wallopers at All Together Now: Tub-thumpers of the first order storm through a rapturously received set
Musically, the Dundalk group update The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers, while their politics are rooted in the present day
The Mary Wallopers: Feelgood trad bangers and pure divilment
Dundalk group’s debut is raucous fun and features fantastic musicians
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