The line up for this year’s Electric Picnic Festival in Co Laois has been announced. The self style ‘boutique’ festival returns as a three day event this year on September 1-3.

Tickets for the Oxegen music festival - headlined by Foo Fighters - have sold out, a record six weeks before the event.

A host of top international acts are set to take over the capital this summer as part of a massive rock and dance extravaganza.