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Electric Picnic Festival

August 2025, TBC
Ireland

About Electric Picnic

Electric Picnic 2004 was the year it all started. It started as a one day event for 10,000 people on a gloriously sunny September Saturday. It was a first for Ireland and destined to keep going for a very long time.

The festival was christened ‘The festival of good intentions’, with its laidback attitude and nothing else in the country to rival it, it is no wonder that Electric Picnic became firmly entrenched as a must go to event in the Festival calendar.

“It seems that those who went simply in search of some good craic, enjoyed a fun day that was miraculously blessed with amazing weather.”

 

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Electric Picnic

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August 2025, TBC
Ireland

Electric Picnic Location & Travel

Electric Picnic Location & Travel

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Electric Picnic FAQs

BY CAR

Full routing information for traveling by car will be available closer to the festival.

PARKING

Parking is free at the festival. Full details on car parks will be available closer to the event.

BY COACH AND SHUTTLE BUS

2016 coach and shuttle bus tickets and information will be available closer to the festival.

BY TRAIN

Portlaoise Train Station is the closest station to the festival. There will be a shuttle bus going to and from the train station to the festival site. 

To check train times and scheduled rail works, please visit the Irish Rail website. 

BY AIR (TO/FROM DUBLIN AIRPORT)

There are a number of travel options available from Dublin Airport to Dublin City Centre, you can view the full list here. Once you arrive in Dublin city there are a number of coach services from the city centre directly to the festival and train services from Heuston Station to Portlaoise Train Station. 

BY BIKE

Anyone with a bike should come through Gate 1a on the Abbeyleix Road, they can park their bikes in the designated area located adjacent to the Tour de Picnic bike racks.