{"id":579009,"date":"2026-08-01T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:21:39","slug":"people-driving-to-all-together-now-urged-to-delay-journeys-due-to-high-volume-of-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579009\/","title":{"rendered":"People driving to All Together Now urged to delay journeys due to high volume of traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-updated-redesign article-updated-redesign-\" title=\"Friday 31 Jul 2026, 4:58 PM\">\n<p>                            LAST UPDATE<br \/>\n                            |<br \/>\n                            23 hrs ago\n                        <\/p>\n<p>PEOPLE DRIVING TO the All Together Now festival in Waterford have been told to delay their journeys because there is so much traffic in the area.<\/p>\n<p>An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said that traffic was particularly bad on the N25 through to Portlaw village.<\/p>\n<p>In its seventh year, the All Together Now festival at Curraghmore Estate will see over 60 acts take to the stage over four nights.<\/p>\n<p>People at the festival are already enjoying the relatively good weather.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/.JPEG\"  alt=\"image\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Eamonn Farrell \/ RollingNews.ie<\/p>\n<p>    Eamonn Farrell \/ RollingNews.ie \/ RollingNews.ie\n<\/p>\n<p>English rock band Pulp, best known for their 1995 hit Common People, will headline on Friday evening, with Disclosure performing a DJ set on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kneecap, the Irish hip-hop trio from Belfast who have made headlines after a court case was brought against them, will be headlining on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785597698_772_.JPEG\"  alt=\"image\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Eamonn Farrell \/ RollingNews.ie<\/p>\n<p>    Eamonn Farrell \/ RollingNews.ie \/ RollingNews.ie\n<\/p>\n<p>British electronic music group Underworld and Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers will also be taking the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The weather isn\u2019t looking bad, with temperatures in the late teens to early 20s today and on Saturday, according to Met \u00c9ireann. Things will get a bit cloudier on Sunday and Monday, and festival goers may need to don ponchos with possible outbreaks of light rain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785597698_799_.JPEG\"  alt=\"image\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Eamonn Farrell \/ RollingNews.ie<\/p>\n<p>    Eamonn Farrell \/ RollingNews.ie \/ RollingNews.ie\n<\/p>\n<p>On the opening night, singer David Keenan paid tribute to Glen Hansard with a rendition of Auld Triangle on a guitar given to him by the late musician.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a packed crowd at sundown on the opening night of the festival, Keenan said: \u201cI\u2019m just one of innumerable people who Glen\u2026 you know he just made a massive impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst time I ever went to America\u2026 he gave me this guitar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve written every single song since 2018 on this guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/.PNG\"  alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Screengrab from Facebook.\n<\/p>\n<p>After the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/glen-hansard-has-died-7116253-Jul2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died on Wednesday in a motorbike crash<\/a>, Keenan paid tribute and shared a video of the first time that he met Hansard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the first time I met Glen, he called me up on stage in Dundalk and I couldn\u2019t believe it at first.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards he brought me to America, gifted me the battered guitar I wrote every song on since 2018 and was always an inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@davidkeenanfanpage871\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Keenan Fan Page<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Keenan, an indie-folk musician and poet from Co Louth will be performing on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>His albums include A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Bravery, which topped the Irish indie charts, WHAT THEN?, and Modern Mythologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 23 hrs ago PEOPLE DRIVING TO the All Together Now festival in Waterford have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99375,244117,40596,93,1044,14452,109247,81806,61,60,278,126,6513],"class_list":["post-579009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-all-together-now","tag-aul-triangle","tag-david-keenan","tag-entertainment","tag-festival","tag-gig","tag-glen-hansard","tag-guitar","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-performance","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}