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All Together Now festival
All Together Now 2025 highs and lows: ‘CMAT for president’, €8 for two cans of Sprite
Curraghmore Estate was packed with 30,000 festivalgoers overs the weekend. Here’s what we loved and hated
All Together Now 2025: The weekend in pictures
Fontaines DC, CMAT and Wet Leg were just some of the August bank holiday festival highlights
Bob Vylan at All Together Now 2025: ‘Our fight is the Irish fight. And the Irish fight is the Palestinians’ fight’
The iconoclastic punks put in a fantastically furious set that breathtakingly meshes punk and politics
Bob Geldof glows with awkward-customer energy as Boomtown Rats play All Together Now 2025
As the singer condemns Israel’s actions in Gaza, Geldof the crazy-haired frontman and the sweary St Bob of Live Aid immortality are both on show
Blindboy comes out on his phone at All Together Now 2025: ‘I’m showing my mum this many people actually showed up’
Podcaster draws a huge crowd on festival’s final morning, when anticipation is building for pop princess Nelly Furtado’s headline set
London Grammar at All Together Now 2025: A surprise duet and a rapturous ending from Saturday’s headliners
Hannah Reid brings her slowly fizzing charisma to bear on a gripping set that the main-stage crowd laps up
CMAT’s powerhouse set could be the best performance at All Together Now 2025
The country-pop sensation’s music glitters with dark depths during a rollercoaster main-stage turn
Inside All Together Now 2025: ‘People are either walking around with iced coffees or walking around with cans’
Thousands of sore heads emerged from tents following high-energy set the night before
Fontaines DC at All Together Now 2025: Biggest Irish group since U2 hit ferocious highs at all-conquering homecoming gig
Show could have been just another festival slot, but Fontaines make it clear they want to leave an impression
Wet Leg at All Together Now 2025: Rhian Teasdale’s ex must feel his ears burning during this blistering set
On the Waterford festival’s first night, the zinging alternative anthems are by turns biting, bittersweet, loved-up and scathing
All Together Now 2025: The first day in pictures
Festivalgoers arrive at Co Waterford estate for a bank holiday weekend of music, spoken word, comedy and more
Early arrivals at All Together Now: ‘If I’m paying €275...I’m getting my money’s worth’
For some All Together Now attendees it was a dash to Waterford to get the party started ahead of performances by Fontaines DC, CMAT and more
All Together Now music festival 2025: Stage line-ups and times, ticket information, how to get there and more
Everything you need to know about the ATN festival at Curraghmore Estate from August 1st-3rd
The Guide: Billie Eilish, Mogwai, All Together Now and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
July 26th-August 1st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The community oven built at an Irish festival, heading for Palestine
The Great Oven, which builds giant decorated community ovens in refugee camps and conflict zones, will host a ‘disco cantina’ at All Together Now
Lorde on weight loss and body image: ‘It’s this evil little rite of passage for a lot of women’
When Ella Yelich-O’Connor was last in Ireland she was working through a break-up and the aftershock of an eating disorder. Her new album has helped make her whole again, she says
Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘Romance took a lot out of us. It was like a bomb went off, and then that silence’
The past eight months have been most hectic of band’s career – and a time to decide what kind of future they want
In The Meadows featuring Iggy Pop, Slowdive and Lambrini Girls: When is it on, stage times, how to get there, weather and tickets info
One-day event at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham is curated by the same teams behind All Together Now and Forbidden Fruit
Festival food trucks: Why are their prices soaring?
At All Together Now, Electric Picnic and other festivals, food is edging towards €20 a dish. Why does it cost so much?
Inside Ireland’s music festival industry: ‘You can haemorrhage money very quickly’
For promoters, there are risks, tight margins and pinch points. Still, as the summer season begins, optimism prevails
How to stage an Irish music festival: From All Together Now to Beyond the Pale
A mountain of work goes into putting on a music festival. Organisers have to prepare for the unexpected - and for the weather
A ‘middle-aged rave’ that ends before midnight? I’ll get my dancing shoes
Events are springing up for those who want an old-school club experience without the attendant exhaustion the next morning
Festivals in Ireland 2025: From Longitude to All Together Now - a guide to 80 of the best
From Brigit and Dublin Lunar New Year to Culture Night, Space Week and Cork Jazz Festival, here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year
All Together Now music festival 2025: Fontaines DC, CMAT and Bicep revealed as part of line-up
Irish acts Fontaines DC and CMAT will headline the three-day festival in Waterford’s Curraghmore Estate
Oasis fans spent an average of €347 on tickets, new data shows
Average ticket spend on August 31st was 300% higher than year so far
The anxious camper’s first music festival experience: I brought ear plugs, a sleep mask and a book
Stepping outside your comfort zone and into a tent at a music festival isn’t for the faint of heart
Mari Samuelsen: ‘I was probably the rebel. I was not interested in going down the same rabbit hole as the others’
The Norwegian violinist, who is giving a series of performances in Ireland, stands out in the classical world as a widely admired outsider
All Together Now 2024: The weekend in pictures
From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun to crowd surfing at Sing Along Social, here are some of the best snaps from this year’s festival
The Prodigy at All Together Now: Did Maxim really just dedicate a song to former Cork City goalie Mick Devine?
Rumbling breakbeats and blitzing strobes can’t stop the set feeling like something you’ve seen and heard before
All Together Now 2024 highs and lows: Barry Can’t Swim ends up bowled over, a Glastonbury bad habit creeps in
From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun and a smoking-belching dragon to headliner confusion and annoying festivalgoers
Future Islands at All Together Now: Joyous hour of soul-baring indie pop
Dad dancer Samuel T Herring is magnetic as he refuses to be self-conscious about his manic moves
The National at All Together Now: A sad-dad singalong to cherish
Replacing Róisín Murphy at the top of Saturday’s bill, the band put on a performance that is more than just a showcase for diehard fans
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