Electric Picnic have expressed their sadness as Laois County Council’s decision not to grant a licence for this year’s event which was to take place from 24-26th of September.

And have called on the government to “interrupt their summer recess and immediately issue reopening guidelines, as we have being calling for, with a reopening date for the sector of the 16th August on a phased basis, building to the implementation of no restrictions from 1st September 2021 onwards.”

Read the statement in full below: