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Local TD says smaller Electric Picnic festival could still go ahead

Aug 5, 2021 11:33 By News Northern Sound
Local TD says smaller Electric Picnic festival could still go ahead
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The festival was refused a licence yesterday.

A smaller version of Electric Picnic could still go ahead this year, according to Fianna Fáil's spokesperson for the arts.

Laois County Council yesterday refused to give the organisers a licence to hold the music festival in Stradbally next month.

The local authority says it's due to public health advice, which limits these events to 500 people.

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The organisers of Electric Picnic say they’re extremely disappointed.

They say this is despite their proposal that everyone attending the event would have been fully vaccinated.

They’ve described it as a huge blow and set back to the entire sector.

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Cavan-Monaghan Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth hopes a compromise can be reached:

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