'Three years on and we're back': Electric Picnic gets underway

Marissa Molyneaux from Co Kerry and Helen Quirke from Co Tipperary setting up their base cap at Electric Picnic on Friday morning. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

There were plenty of traffic jams en route to Co Laois on Friday morning, as over 60,000 people made their way to Stradbally for the first Electric Picnic in three years.

However, delays were expected and everything seemed to go off without a hitch once inside the gates. Checks by staff were thorough, and there seemed to be few issues in terms of ticket scanning and entry.