Electric Picnic: Great music, wet weather and drug testing among the talking points of a fine weekend

The weather gods didn’t favour Electric Picnic this year, but there was still plenty fun to be had, with both Snow Patrol and Actic Monkeys playing blistering sets on the final night

Crowds at the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois. Picture: Paulo Gonçalves 

Electric Picnic 2022 officially came to a close in the early hours of the morning as, under the pouring rain, over 70,000 people wished Stradbally goodbye once more.

This year’s festival — the first since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic— was nothing but joyous, as return attendees and first-time festival goers united under the various tents that blocked out the unwanted weather outside.