Search
23 Sept 2025
Search
23 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
picture from PATH at a previous Electric Picnic
Volunteers are being sought to help clean Electric Picnic sleeping bags so they can be donated to the homeless.
Portlaoise Action To Homelessness(PATH) volunteers collected the bags from the festival campsite in Stradbally on Monday.
PATH delivers food and essentials to homeless people in Laois and Dublin and has collected sleeping bags from the Electric Picnic for a number of years. The volunteers fill out forms which permit them access to the site once the campers leave.
This year they collected around 300 sleeping bags. These bags need to be cleaned and dried before they can be donated to the homeless.
“It's that time of year again we need your help!!! We have bags and bags of dirty sleeping bags unfortunately due to hazardous weather conditions on Monday our full salvage team were unable to gain access to the site but a few of our team got in. We collected about 300 sleeping bags and we need your help to wash them,” PATH wrote in an online post.
“We will be at Laois Shopping Centre on Thursday evening (22nd August) at 6pm (Penneys entrance). If you think you could take a small few sleeping bags to wash (3 or 4 is more than enough) please come along and take them,” they stated.
PATH are asking people to return the cleaned bags to the same location the following Thursday, August 29 at 6pm.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
