FOREST FEST | Emo Village, Co. Laois, Ireland | 24–26 July 2026
Forest Fest is one of those festivals that began with a personal frustration rather than a business plan. Philip Meagher, a solicitor by trade from Co. Laois, started planning the festival in 2019 while on a break abroad. He'd been to plenty of festivals that felt like too much, overcrowded, uncomfortable, long queues, nowhere to sit with a proper pint. He reached out to some contacts, had a chunk of the lineup sorted within hours, then the pandemic hit. By 2022, Forest Fest was real.
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