so...increase of asylum seekers crossing into Ireland from N Ireland, UK Govt saying this because of Rwanda policy which actually may have some truth to it, and Ireland want to send them back but UK saying f**k off. Messy. Need to come up with a europe wide policy on this stuff (not just EU wide).
Still reeling from this line up announcement, I'm just curious, if Festival Republic announced this for Reading and Leeds or Latitude, I'd imagine it would sink like a lead balloon. The problem with Ireland is that a lot of the acts on R&L and Latitude have announced standalone gigs in Dublin, Cork and Galway and in the North. Dublin has a selection of parks that are turned into one day festivals, St Annes, Kilmainham, Trinity etc they swallow up a lot of the possible acts that could appear at EP. Last great line up that EP really had was in 2018. So come EP's first announcement there's not much left in the pot for what used to be a great festival.
Just from the hypothetical Clashfinder as it's filled in at the moment. Other and Park haven't been released yet so both could be on a totally different time.