{"id":607738,"date":"2026-08-28T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607738\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:40:14","slug":"gallery-electric-picnic-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607738\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery: Electric Picnic Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were outbreaks of sun and rain as Electric Picnic kicked off in Stradbally, Co Laois on Friday with up to 80,000 music fans set to attend over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Thousands braved the wet conditions last night to set up camp and the weather on Friday has been changeable, with plenty of rain and sunny spells.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/p>\n

Electric Picnic 2026: Everything you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n

From JADE to Geese: Our ten acts to see at Electric Picnic<\/a><\/p>\n

Zara Larsson, Sombr and Lewis Capaldi are headlining the Main Stage tonight.<\/p>\n

\"Aoife
\nAoife Coyle, Roisin Donoghue, Aoife Fry and Talitha McGrath<\/p>\n

Saturday is expected to start with low cloud and rain before conditions clear eastwards. Sunshine and showers should follow, with mostly dry weather developing by evening. Highs of 16C to 21C are forecast.<\/p>\n

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Sunday currently looks the wettest day of the weekend, with outbreaks of rain expected for much of the day, heavy and persistent at times. Temperatures are forecast to reach 16C to 18C.<\/p>\n

\"Sisters
\nSisters Aimee Byrne and Alicia Byrne, from Ballyfin, Co Laois<\/p>\n

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\"Louise
\nLouise Cantillon and Doireann Ni Ghlacain<\/p>\n

\"Nira
\nNira O’Gorman, from Co Carlow<\/p>\n

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\"Ryan
\nRyan Mar, Higo Figuera and Shauna Davitt<\/p>\n

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\"Marcella
\nMarcella O’Donovan and Niamh Ryan<\/p>\n

\"Aisling
\nAisling Finlay<\/p>\n

\"Steve
\nSteve Spade and Elaine Daly<\/p>\n

\"Abbie
\nAbbie Beggs and Lexi MacKeown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were outbreaks of sun and rain as Electric Picnic kicked off in Stradbally, Co Laois on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607738","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\/607738","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=607738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}