{"id":31780,"date":"2025-08-29T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31780\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:24:09","slug":"electric-picnic-day-1-with-80000-fans-making-it-the-biggest-year-ever-has-the-festival-become-overblown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31780\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Picnic day 1: With 80,000 fans making it the biggest year ever, has the festival become overblown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fans watch Conan Gray at the Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally in Co Laois. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3bc37b07-61dc-42e6-81de-042f80edcfbd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Fans watch Conan Gray at the Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally in Co Laois. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p>Aoife Rooney and Saoirse Hanley<\/p>\n<p>Today at 22:25<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is Electric Picnic\u2019s biggest year yet, with 80,000 people having descended onto a field in Laois. It\u2019s an approximate increase of 5,000 people compared to 2024 and an increase of ten thousand in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If the number of picnickers has grown, has the space stretched to accommodate them all? This year saw the reshaping of existing campsites on the map, and the introduction of new ones that required you to book in advance. Previously, only the eco-friendly zone had this stipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans watch Conan Gray at the Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally in Co Laois. Photo: PA Aoife Rooney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23203,9,10,18,11985,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,24322,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-31780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aoife-rooney","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-electric-picnic","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-saoirse-hanley","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}