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A look at the history of Irish festivals since Féile - and subsequent controversies
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Féile was truly like nothing Ireland had ever seen before as it was the county’s first multi-day music event.
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Fest your eyes on this: Our guide to the biggest events this summer
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Festival season has kicked off in Ireland - here's all that's happening
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Beyond The Pale: Everything you need to know as festival kicks off in Wicklow
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Beyond The Pale kicks off on the Glendalough Estate this weekend
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Beyond The Pale organisers update worried fans about future of music festival
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Organisers have confirmed the Wicklow music event will go ahead as planned in Glendalough from June 13 until June 15
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Irish festival held in forest announces saunas and cold-water plunges to help music fans unwind
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Night and Day festival takes place from June 27-29 in Roscommon
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Ex-RTE star Ryan Tubridy makes return to UK festival with Virgin Radio's Chris Evans
Ryan Tubridy
The event takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend
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'The kindness of strangers has restored faith in humanity.' Huge support for fundraising festival for missing Luke Price
Missing person
A festival is being held this weekend in Tullamore to raise funds for the National Missing Persons Helpline, as the search for missing Luke continues
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Forbidden Fruit 2025: Stage times, ticket info, weather forecast, transport and more
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit returns this June Bank Holiday weekend and we have all the info you need ahead of the first big festival of the summer
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Bulmers Live at Leopardstown returns with new look showcasing 'Best of Irish'
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The Academic, Jerry Fish, Marcus O’Laoire, Allie Sherlock and Darren Kiely have all been announced to headline across five nights this June and July
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Forest Fest announces 35 new acts to join huge line-up for summer festival
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Forest Fest takes place in Laois this July and will see Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand, Travis, Orbital, The Stranglers and more play over the weekend
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Electric Picnic confirms five huge headliners for 2025 festival including Hozier and Kings of Leon
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Electric Picnic will take place from August 29 to 31 in Stradbally - with a swath of immense artists just announced as headliners
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'Trump pardons Enoch' - Burke family features in St Patrick's Day parade in Mayo
Enoch Burke
The controversial family were the inspiration behind a parade float in Balla - around eight miles from their home town of Castlebar
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'There's so many facets he touched upon.' 10th edition of The Dublin David Bowie Festival set to be 'biggest year yet'
David Bowie
The Irish Mirror chatted to The David Bowie Festival director John Brereton about the Starman's legacy and Irish connections ahead of the festival's 10th anniversary this week
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All Together Now adds more than 50 acts to festival including Fontaines D.C.
All Together Now
Fontaines D.C., Bicep, London Grammar, CMAT, Michael Kiwanuka, Wet Leg and more have all been announced for the festival
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Minister rejects call to nationalise Rose of Tralee Festival
Rose of Tralee
The annual event has struggled with issues in the past, and putting it on a statutory footing would protect it for future generations, according to a Kerry TD
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Brand new St Brigid's Bank Holiday Weekend festival launching in Limerick with Ruth Negga, Lisa Hannigan, Bell X1’s Paul Noonan and more
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All we Have are Days debuts in Limerick City this St. Brigid’s weekend, headlined by Oscar nominee Ruth Negga, DJ and producer Quantic, U.S. filmmaker dream hampton and singer/songwriter Lisa Hannigan
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C'mBan Kellie - Olympic star Harrington one of the guests at Dublin's Nollaig na mBan Festival
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Teenage blues sensation Mhuireann Bradley and former In Tua Nua lead singer Leslie Dowdall among the musical acts booked
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'For anyone to have the opportunity to perform is a blessing': Dundalk duo Negro Impacto on creativity and community
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Negro Impacto will play the Record Room on Friday as part of the Prima Volta Weekender, three days of gigs and workshops across Limerick to celebrate a decade of Prima Volta shows in Limerick
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Pink cocaine, containing ketamine and ecstasy, identified by HSE at Irish festivals
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Addiction experts have signalled the alarm amid reports that former One Direction singer Liam Payne had pink cocaine in his system when he died in Argentina
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Irish festivals could learn a lot from London's All Points East
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The superbly curated line-up is what we came to All Points East for, but the experience once we got there is what will ensure we return
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'At Electric Picnic it's hard to see the virtue signalling inside the tents because of the tents abandoned outside'
Electric Picnic
'For all the sustainable energy on stage, there's always people off it who lack energy of any sort to pack up properly once it's all over
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Beyond the Pale 2024: Tickets, stage times, how to get there and everything else you need to know
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Everything you need to know ahead of one of the first big music festivals of the summer this weekend at Glendalough Estate, Co Wicklow
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In The Meadows Festival: Tickets, stage times and everything else you need to know
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In The Meadows is a brand new one-day festival headlined and co-curated by Mercury Prize-nominated Irish band Lankum in what is their only Dublin show for 2024
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Ireland gig guide: Forbidden Fruit, Picture This and all of this week's biggest concerts
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Festival season officially gets underway this weekend, with a host of huge music events set to take place across the country
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