The Manic Street Preachers last night closed the Main Stage at the 2017 Indiependence festival, bringing to an end three days of music and more.

It was a throwback to the old pre-bypass days for Mitchelstown, Co Cork, yesterday afternoon as bumper-to-bumper cars crawled their way northbound through the town to this year’s Indiependence Music and Arts festival.

The Manic Street Preachers are looking forward to headlining Indiependence in Co Cork next weekend, writes Ed Power

Looks like it’s going to be a blast from the past.

Joe Leogue looks back on another fine weekend of fun and music at the Mitchelstown festival

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

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.

Indiependence turned 10 at the weekend, so Joe Leogue did some number crunching

They came, they saw, they got a bit muddy.

Revellers at Indiependence had their night brought to an abrupt end last night when the Gardaí turned up to pull the plug on a DJ set that had run overtime.

Mitchelstown was unusually quiet on the August Bank Holiday weekend 10 years ago, as the town’s annual summer festival took an enforced hiatus amid an uncertain future.

Basement Jaxx find themselves in fashion again, which is good news for anyone going to Indiependence, writes Ed Power

YouTube — it’s a weird and wonderful place, full of crazy cat videos and thought-provoking Ted Talks, celebrity gaffes and hard-hitting documentaries.

Music fans have been put on ‘Red Alert’ as Indiependence adds more acts to its stellar 10th anniversary line-up.

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?"

White Lies talk to Ed Power in advance of their appearance at Indiependence in Co Cork

Ireland is set to enjoy some mixed but generally pleasant weather over the coming weeks, according to many forecasts.

Indiependence Music & Arts Festival has today announced a second batch of acts to play this year's event.

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.

Word of the dancing garda at Indiependence has obviously made its way across the pond.

HOW do you know you’re getting old? When you break into a sprint, without giving three weeks’ notice to your body? Is it the sight of the first few grey hairs in the mirror that look so ludicrous, you think “Aw COME ON, special effects in this movie are cat!”.

A member of An Garda Síochána takes a break from busting perps to bust a move onstage.

THE bankers should have been an example to people in other industries that too much of a good thing can never last.

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.

MUSIC NEWS: Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody, below, is one of the busiest men in show business at the moment.

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.