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As scores of children increasingly roam around the big summer music events, this seasoned festival-goer wonders if they really are ideal places to bring the little ones to

Rather than dragging your kids along to a festival, a much better option would be to hire a babysitter Pic: GETTY

There’s not much that I don’t like about a music festival. With summer nearly upon us, I’m already excited about the upcoming Electric Picnic festival and the All Together Now festival. Summer, for me, is in large part defined by the quality of the music festivals in Ireland; I can summon up some of my favourite memories just by looking through my treasured old line-up laminates.

But there is one phenomenon at a ...