{"id":607240,"date":"2026-08-28T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607240\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:52:16","slug":"weather-not-a-worry-for-electric-picnic-goers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607240\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather not a worry for Electric Picnic-goers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty thousand festival-goers are descending on Stradbally for Electric Picnic this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands braved the rain last night to set up camp, but the new arrivals are not worried about any more potential downpours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0827\/1589340-electric-picnic-2026-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Electric Picnic 2026: Everything you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We might get wet, that&#8217;s the worst that can happen, so we&#8217;ll be fine,&#8221; Heather Murray from Co Laois told RT\u00c9 News.<\/p>\n<p>Many people compared the weather to the 2022 festival, where the rain &#8220;bucketed down the whole time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0828\/1584853-from-jade-to-geese-ten-acts-to-see-at-electric-picnic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From JADE to Geese: Our ten acts to see at Electric Picnic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sun is kind of coming out there now, I hope,&#8221; Andrew Burke-Hannon said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to hear from more festival-goers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighty thousand festival-goers are descending on Stradbally for Electric Picnic this weekend. Thousands braved the rain last night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607240","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=607240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}