Charity collects 800 Electric Picnic sleeping bags for the homeless

A Midlands-based charity is collecting hundreds of sleeping bags from the site of the Electric Picnic festival in Co Laois.

Portlaoise Action to Homelessness (Path) has collected a year’s supply of sleeping bags from the Stradbally site and plans to give away the surplus to other charities.

Path volunteer, Tom Duffy, said they collected 800 sleeping bags on Monday.