It was glitter, knee socks and glam all the way as the Pride parade took over Cork city, bringing this year’s Pride Festival to a close with a splash of colour.

The 19-year-old man is believed to have taken a substance while attending the festival in Mitchelstown.

Róisín O is one half of Thanks Brother with John Broe.

Apart from headliners, Primal Scream, Jake Bugg, Walking On Cars, La Galaxie and Kate Nash here’s who not to miss:

The native of Glanmire, Co Cork, is, with his 1000 Beasts project, regarded as one of the brightest prospects in Irish pop.

He’s dated Taylor Swift, but Tom Odell is happier talking about his music and his headline slot at Co Cork’s Indiependence festival over the weekend, writes Ed Power.

The rude health of Irish music is to be celebrated at a new rock ’n roll festival. But Music Cork promises to be more than merely an excuse to let one’s hair down and rock out, writes Ed Power.

The organisers of a 10,000 capacity music festival expect it to sell out well in advance after announcing a raft of artists will appear alongside Manic Street Preachers, The Coronas and Sigma.

8,000 festival goers left the site and the gates of Deer Farm in Mitchelstown closed for another year as Indiependence Festival 2015 came to an end on Monday.

Almost two years ago, I had the privilege of drinking pints with Kodaline outside a packed-to-the-rafters pub in Mitchelstown, Co Cork.

LIKE any sport that is characterised by endurance this year’s Indiependence Music & Arts Festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, seemed to communicate the value of peaking at the right moment.

With dusk falling on the Saturday evening of the Indiependence Music & Arts Festival, a gravel- voiced female festival-goer is displaying early symptoms of the festival equivalent of post-traumatic stress disorder: "Why is my voice like this?"

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A young music fan on his way to the Indiependence festival in Mitchelstown stopped on the road to check the cannabis herb in the boot of the car and to sniff it before putting it into another bag, but he did not realise he was literally under the nose of a garda.

It’s not happening until August but already early- bird tickets are selling faster than ever for an outdoor music festival estimated to bring in €2m to a North Cork town.

Rain may be forecast but a rainbow of colour is expected over Cork this bank holiday weekend as one of the country’s largest gay pride festivals takes place.

MUSIC NEWS: Nile Rodgers seems to be in so many places at the moment you shouldn’t be surprised if he pops his head out of your fridge when you reach for that cold drink later today.

Irish indie favourites Bell X1 join De La Soul and Bastille as headliners at the Indiependence festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork next August Bank Holiday Weekend.

The first round of acts have this evening been announced for the INDIEPENDENCE Music & Arts Festival.

SMALL but perfectly formed was the verdict on the Liss Ard arts and music festival in West Cork over the weekend.

MUSIC NEWS: It’s a world record you’d never want to be part of. Jay-Z and Kanye West played the track ‘Niggas In Paris’ 12 times at a recent show in the French capital.

AN on-site beauty salon, cinema and hot showers are just some of the things thousands of festival-goers descending on Mitchelstown, Co Cork, can expect this weekend.