The site of Irish music festival Electric Picnic is currently being transformed into a temporary home for around 750 refugees.
Work has now begun in setting up hundreds of tents across the festival site in Stradbally, County Laois, where Electric Picnic festival went ahead over the weekend from September 1 – 3.
According to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY), the site will house nearly 1,000 refugees for a six-week period after the…