Music From the street to Stradbally: meet the buskers plugging into Electric Picnic The City Stage Collective at the annual music festival will feature a selection of Ireland’s most talented street musicians, who will then get a chance to play at venues like the 3Arena
The Big Interview Avril Stanley: ‘I was like, okay honey, we gotta build a ship, and the ship was Body & Soul’The founder of Body & Soul in Ireland is planning this summer’s event and says that while the festival may grow again, it will never become so big that it loses sight of what is important
TCD’s Luke O’Neill says Electric Picnic should go ahead as test eventThe immunology professor disagrees with Laois County Council’s decision to cancel the 70,000-attendee music festival, saying it could be held safely as a pilot event
Nadine O’Regan: After the pandemic, you can never go backWill a return to society bring with it a move back to the same old rituals? Or has our Covid-related break from each other meant something more profound than we realised?
The Last Post: Buying back Aer Lingus might not actually be a flight of fancy It would cost us dearly, but our tourist industry and international connectivity may depend on the state repurchasing the national airline