#Indie17 fans dress for the weather they want

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.

Shops along the town’s main street — once the main Cork-Dublin road — showed up for the occasion, many throwing out the bunting and giving their window displays a musical theme to tie in with Indie 17.

Many of those same businesses had weekend specials on offer to tempt festival-goers to make the 20-minute walk from the Indie site on Deer Farm to the north of the town into their shops.