A smaller version of Electric Picnic could still go ahead this year, according to Fianna Fáil's spokesperson for the arts.
Laois County Council yesterday refused to give the organisers a licence to hold the music festival in Stradbally next month.
The local authority says it's due to public health advice, which limits these events to 500 people.
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The organisers of Electric Picnic say they’re extremely disappointed.
They say this is despite their proposal that everyone attending the event would have been fully vaccinated.
They’ve described it as a huge blow and set back to the entire sector.
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Cavan-Monaghan Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth hopes a compromise can be reached:
