Electric Picnic day one: Five highlights from  Stradbally as rain doesn't dampen spirits 

Megan Thee Stallion and Little Simz featured among the hightlights of the first day of an Electric Picnic where the weather just about stayed on side

Electric Picnic 2022: The crowd enjoy the first night and, right, Megan Thee Stallion on stage. Pictures: Roisin Murphy O'Sullivan, Ana Meiu

The clouds miraculously parted over Co Laois on Friday, as more than 70,000 excited festival-goers descended on Stradbally once more.

It had been three years since the Electric Picnic masses last made those sacred 600 acres their home - and people were more than ready to make up for lost time.