So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Electric Picnic 2018 is on course to be an instant sell out as Kendrick Lamar, Massive Attack and NERD were unveiled as headliners of the Stradbally, Co Laois music festival.

Our policing folk, officially known as An Garda Siochana, have been getting into the festival mood on social media posting some puntastic tweets to drive home their stay safe reminders.

More than 50,000 music fans will this weekend converge on Laois village Stradbally for Electric Picnic, the 13th outing of the music and arts festival.

West Cork-based Keith Payne is using his set design experience with the likes of Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones to judge inventive creations at the Stradbally event, writes Ellie O’Byrne

 

The dates for next year's Electric Picnic have been announced.

With the feast of fun kicking off in Stradbally today, Ed Power goes behind the scenes with three of the organisers

MUSIC NEWS: Perhaps it’s fortunate for the Glastonbury organisers that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs isn’t on their bill this weekend. 

Some 35,000 festival-goers are making Stradbally Co. Laois their home this weekend at the Electric Picnic.

Fatboy Slim is headlining tonight’s main stage at the Electric Picnic in Co. Laois.

ELECTRIC PICNIC: For many people, this week has revolved around the back to school shenanigans, but a lucky few thousand were preparing bags of a different kind as they set out for the Electric Picnic.

Final preparations are underway in Co Laois ahead of the final big music festival of the summer.

It will be full steam ahead in Stradbally today, as the National Vintage Steam Rally begins.

Three hours of The Cure might have been a bit much, but the bill at Stradbally was certainly eclectic, says Sorcha Coleman

Thousands of people have already arrived at the Electric Picnic venue in Co Laois for the annual three-day music and arts event at the Stradbally Hall estate.

MEXICAN waves and spontaneous cheering greeted the rare arrival of a ray of Irish sunshine as 30,000 revellers descended on Stradbally for day one of Electric Picnic.

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

David Beckham and Hollywood star Jackie Chan will be the final guests as Jonathan Ross bows out from his BBC1 chat show, it was announced today.

Thousands of campers are packing up as the last major music festival of the summer draws to a close.

Stradbally, Co Laois is hosting the last big festival of the summer this weekend.

AROUND 25,000 party-goers are expected to descend on a Co Laois estate in September for the second year of a star-studded Electric Picnic festival.

Stradbally and Kilmurry/Ibrickane clash in the Munster club football final in Thurles today and the occasion is unusual in that it is only the second time in the history of the competition that a team from Cork or Kerry will not contest the decider.