Headlining the main stage at a major festival is all part of a day's toil for Florence and the Machine's Florence Welch.

One Direction’s sell-out gigs at Croke Park last year helped ticket sales by MCD Productions to grow by 12.5% to 1.5m in a bumper year for the promoters.

It manages to be hilarious and romantic all at the same time.

The Irish Women’s Rugby team were also there.

Bjork, Fatboy Slim, and the Arctic Monkeys are the headline acts for the 2013 installment of Electric Picnic.

Organisers of Electric Picnic 2012 have said their mature and respectful audience should mean a trouble-free festival later this month.

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.

Retailers say the first copies of Microsoft's latest operating system have proved a hit with shoppers.