Traffic on one of the main routes to Electric Picnic is already very busy.

Known as the festival with something for everyone, the sold-out Electric Picnic kicks off this Friday with acts from The Prodigy to the ’90s girl band B*witched and plenty of non-music entertainment too.

There are no immediate plans to increase the capacity of Electric Picnic which this year sold out before the line-up was announced, the director of the festival has said. 

Ed Power reports from Stradbally after three days of music, mixed weather and great fun - here's what he learned. 

Under the red sign at SuperValu…

Waterford football has been rocked by the decision of players from county championship-winning side Stradbally to snub Tom McGlinchey’s senior set-up for the 2016 season.

Stradbally (Waterford) 0-5 Nemo Rangers (Cork) 1-13: Once showered and changed, the Stradbally players made the short walk from Fraher Field to The Park Hotel for a couple of well overdue pints.

Gardai are holding an open day in Stradbally to collect lost property from Electric Picnic.

It was a week in which the business news was dominated by the travails of dodgy German car salesmen and by the Flight of the Web Summit Earls to a less costly Lisbon.

This Georgian residence in Co Waterford has much of its original plasterwork and features, says Trish Dromey.

Drumroll please …

Organisers released the tickets today alongside announcing that Florence + The Machine, Underworld, and Manic Street Preachers as acts for this year’s festival.