Tickets for this year's Witnness festival are due to go on sale at 8am today. The tickets are expected to sell out within hours.

The second day of the Witnness festival is to kick-off in just a few hours.

Ireland's largest music festival kicks off its second leg this afternoon.

Witnness is underway in Co Meath. The first acts are performing at Fairyhouse. British band Oasis tops the bill of more than a hundred groups appearing on five stages over the next two days.

40,000 music fans are expected to descend on Fairyhouse in Co Meath this weekend for the Witnness festival.

THE 40,000 music fans who will descend on Fairyground Racecourse for this weekend's Witnness festival will be praying the sun makes a guest appearance.

David Kitt, Death In Vegas DJ Richard Fearless and former Deee-Lite star Lady Miss Kier have been added to the Witnness festival line-up.

Organisers of the Witnness music festival are planning a second major event, this time in Northern Ireland.

Pulp are to headline a gig in Ireland for the first time in over two years.

Tricky, Elbow, Catatonia and Teenage Fanclub are among the latest additions to the line-up of the Witnness festival at Fairyhouse racecourse.