Five things we learned at Indiependence 2016

Joe Leogue looks back on another fine weekend of fun and music at the Mitchelstown festival

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The first thoughts on hitting Indie 16? It’s dry, it’s dry, oh thank God it’s dry. The Irish summer has been positively cruel to this festival in recent years, and moving the main stage into a large marquee was a particularly shrewd move by the organisers last year, when an unrelenting rain assaulted Cork on the Sunday of the August Bank Holiday weekend.