John Hearne cautions people to be on high alert as seasonal scams seem to be on the rise, so particularly watch out for fraudulent emails.

It was a good day for Junior Cert Irish students, with teachers claiming that papers were much more fair, manageable and accessible than in previous years.

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An Garda Síochána received almost €1.5m from promoters and organisers to police some of the largest events held in the country last year — but received no external payment towards the cost of providing security for the Pope’s visit.

It is estimated that over 588 tonnes of waste, which includes beer cans, food wrappers, chairs, inflatable mattresses, clothing – including shoes and coats - goes into a landfill/incinerator after the Picnic.

An bhfuil tú ag dul go dtí Electric Picnic? Bhuel, dea-scéal!

Jim X Comet has been involved in music in Cork for the past four decades. He played with such bands as Belsonic Sound and the Dancing Bastards From Hell, as well as managing the Comet Records shop.

Demands for free condoms and advice about the drug, ecstasy, were the main concerns of young people at Electric Picnic’s first harm-reduction service for drug-users.

He’s had death threats from Eminem fans, and is at odds with conservative America, but Perfume Genius could still be one of the most fun acts at Electric Picnic, writes Ed Power.

A festival with your children may not replicate the hedonistic experience of your youth, but there are a lot of compensating factors, says Emma Connolly

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A book of evidence was served yesterday on a man accused of selling fraudulent Adele concert tickets for thousands of euro.

MCD supremo Denis Desmond dashed the hopes of Coldplay fans yesterday by confirming there will be no second gig by the band in Dublin next summer.

Indiependence organiser Shane Dunne tells Joe Leogue how the Mitchelstown festival has grown from humble beginnings

Humblebrag. Noun. An ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.

MCD-promoted music gigs attracted more than 1.2m fans in Ireland last year with a similar number of revellers expected in 2016, according to company chief Denis Desmond.

MUSIC NEWS: Netflix subscribers now have access to two worthwhile music documentaries: Keith Richards: Under the Influence, in which the Rolling Stones guitarist talks about his new solo album and the sounds that have inspired him over the years; and Time Is Illmatic, the film that tells of Nas’s classic 1994 album, and his background in New York that gave rise to it. 

Pop priestess Grace Jones, dance veterans Underworld, and student disco icons Belle and Sebastian were among the highlights as the Electric Picnic music festival began at Stradbally, Co Laois, Friday night.

You might remember earlier this week Irish student Emily Culhane posted this picture to the Electric Picnic Facebook page.

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I was angered to read the second front-page story for last Saturday’s edition ‘€140k for woman who had swab left inside her’ (Irish Examiner, July 4). 

As festival season gets into gear, Ellie O’Byrne has the lowdown on the do’s and don’ts of bringing children to weekend-long events

The trading performance of the firm that runs Electric Picnic improved in 2014 after incurring a trading loss of €131,604 last year, according to its directors.

There was absolutely no monkey business when Fota Wildlife Park carried off the main prize at an internet awards ceremony.

A fugitive fraudster, convicted twice for drug offences while on the run in Ireland, has been sentenced to five years in a US federal prison after pleading guilty to a multimillion-dollar mortgage scam.

Denis Desmond of MCD said yesterday that this year’s Electric Picnic recorded a "healthy" profit.

Organisers of the Electric Picnic have added 23 new acts to the bill of the three-day arts and music festival.

Concert promoter Denis Desmond has added to his fortune by sharing a dividend totalling £3.29m (€4.1m) from his Festival Republic business last year.

A company of music promoter John Reynolds has settled its legal action over the operation of the Electric Picnic.

The line-up for one of the country’s leading music festivals has finally been announced with headline acts appealing, not only to the young, but also the young at heart.

The promoters of Electric Picnic have issued a warning to festivalgoers about a large number of counterfiet tickets in circulation.

The first acts confirmed for Electric Picnic have been announced this afternoon.

Electric Picnic regulars will be given discounts when tickets for the festival go on sale next week, it has been announced.

A licensing row over Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath's new restaurant venture in Dublin city will be decided by a court next Tuesday.

The West is very much awake for The Menu as he hightails it off down to Heir Island, West Cork, for Firehouse Bread’s splendid wood-fired oven bread-making course.

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

Nightclub operator John Reynolds, who is the nephew of the former taoiseach, Albert Reynolds, has been forced to hand over almost €500,000 as part of an investigation into tax defaulters.