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Eighty thousand music fans spent the weekend on the Stradbally Hall estate. Here’s what we loved and hated
The Cranberries
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Stradbally Hall estate, in Co Laois, welcomes 80,000 festivalgoers to the first day of this year’s event
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American singer’s theatrical entrance sets tone for full-on show that features Noel and Mike Hogan on Celtic grunge favourite
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High emotions as Dermot Kennedy joins The Cranberries to sing Dolores O’Riordan’s immaculate songs at Electric Picnic 2025
Noel and Mike Hogan welcome the star to perform with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in a tribute to their late bandmate
Electric Picnic 2025: Stage times for all the main areas
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Electric Picnic 2025: Inhaler, Jazzy and David Gray among 11 more acts added to line-up
Noel and Mike Hogan of The Cranberries to reunite for first time since Dolores O’Riordan's death in 2018
Air rage rising: From insults to sexual comments and assault, ‘it’s getting completely out of hand’
Cabin crew members report an increasingly volatile atmosphere caused by a small minority of passengers, with alcohol and drugs often in the mix
Irish female artists make up just 2% of most-played songs on Irish radio in past year – report
Jazzy and Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries were the only women in the top 100 songs played
‘This is like our Christmas’: Music outlets preparing for queues on World Record Store Day
Hard copies of releases from U2, The Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac, Pearl Jam and more to be in demand despite availability of music online
‘I timed it so my parents were away at church. I just took off my clothes and set up my little tripod’
For Jonny Pierce, of the cult alternative band The Drums, posing naked in an empty house full of traumatic memories was an act of reclamation
How did the anti-IRA Zombie by The Cranberries become an Irish rugby anthem?
How did Rugby World Cup fans end up embracing a song about the futility of atavistic nationalist violence?
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? The Cranberries’ debut album turns 30 today
They were outsiders but, in one of the great self-fulfilling prophecies in Irish music, they quickly conquered the world
Dolores O’Riordan’s former Howth home for €1.395m
The late Cranberries singer stayed longer than intended in this five-bedroom home
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