Festivals are an ideal setting for casual sex but how much do revellers know about sexually transmitted infections, asks Áilín Quinlan.

Hozier and Florence top Electric Picnic bill Hozier has been announced as one of the headline acts of this year’s Electric Picnic festival.

What do you think?

A Midlands-based charity is collecting hundreds of sleeping bags from the site of the Electric Picnic festival in Co Laois.

A couple, who were in a state of undress in their tent at the Electric Picnic Festival in 2015 when security men burst in to search their belongings, have each settled a damages claim against the organisers and two security companies.

Love in a hopeless place!

Have you seen Queen Bee's performance yet?

As she gets ready for her Clonakilty gig, Valerie June tells Ed Power why her bluesy sound shouldn’t be pigeonholed

Underworld are one of the dance acts guaranteed to get the crowd rocking at Electric Picnic, writes Ed Power

Numbers attending events promoted by Denis Desmond’s MCD Productions firm this year will not hit the heights of 2014 due to an anticipated quiet final quarter.

YOU can see the final bend and five-furlong straight at Mallow Racecourse from the upstairs bedrooms of Firville House.

As impressive Irish gigs have shown, London Grammar are not just pretty faces, writes Ed Power

A woman whose sleeping bag reportedly caught fire while she camped at the Electric Picnic festival is being treated for burn injuries in hospital.

Murphy’s Stout have announced that New York’s Guards, Cork troubadour John Spillane, Fred frontman Joe O’Leary and newcomers Elastic Sleep will join headliner MGMT and Irish legends The Stunning for the upcoming Little Big Weekend.

ONE of the strangest sights at the recent Electric Picnic festival was the mass exodus from the main stage ten minutes into the swoonful noise-rock of My Bloody Valentine.

Organisers have revealed the Main Stage times for this weekend's Electric Picnic festival.

There will be some very familiar faces at the Literary Tent at this weekend’s Electric Picnic festival.

A host of acts have been confirmed for the Body and Soul section of this year’s Electric Picnic festival.

Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder is to make his first ever appearance in Ireland at the Electric Picnic festival in September, it was announced today.

There are concerns today that the Electric Picnic festival may not go ahead this year.

After three joyous days in the sunshine, we celebrate the best of pictures from this summer's Electric Picnic festival.

The Body & Soul village, built around a stone and wood music stage, will be at the heart of the festival this weekend, says Richard Fitzpatrick

The countdown is on to one of the last big music events of the summer.

The Killers and The Cure will headline this year’s Electric Picnic festival.

IF you thought the ukulele was an outdated musical instrument associated with eccentric ditties like George Formby’s When I’m Cleaning Windows or Tiny Tim’s Tiptoe Through The Tulips, a group of West Cork musicians aim to completely debunk the notion.

Traffic is heavy on the M7 this evening as thousands of revellers descend on Stradbally in Co. Laois for the Electric Picnic festival.

Some 35,000 people are expected to travel to the Electric Picnic Festival in Co Laois today.

SINÉAD O’CONNOR has launched a blistering attack on RTÉ over its motive for inviting her to be a guest on the Late Late Show this week.

REVELLERS at next weekend’s Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co Laois, will encounter a new range of steak sandwiches which are healthier than regular beef, chicken or salmon.

Mindfield, the spoken word arena at this year’s Electric Picnic festival, is set to include Bob Geldof, Nobel Laureate Jerry White and Booker Prize winners John Banville and Roddy Doyle, it was confirmed today.

Wexford band Cry Before Dawn have been confirmed to play this year's Electric Picnic festival after 18 years apart.

Electric Picnic festival-goers who booked a MyHab living space have been urged to contact the UK company following rumours that it is to fold.

More acts have been confirmed for this year's Electric Picnic Festival in Co Laois.

More acts have been added to the line up for this year's Electric Picnic festival.

The line up for this year's Electric Picnic festival will be announced later today.

ONE of the world’s most famous gospel choirs is set to feature at a forthcoming international music festival in Waterford.

Motorists are being urged to drive with extra care this morning, after heavy overnight rain caused some flooding in parts of the country.

SMILING revellers abandoned their raincoats as the sunlight-filled fields of Co Laois saw tens of thousands of music fans setting up home for the weekend at this year’s Electric Picnic festival.

Festival organisers have released the schedule for this weekend’s Electric Picnic festival.