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Run Forest Run!

Are you heading to Electric Picnic this year? Are you driving? Getting the bus maybe - or the train...
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1:32 PM - 24 Jul 2015



Run Forest Run!

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Run Forest Run!

TodayFM
TodayFM

1:32 PM - 24 Jul 2015



Are you heading to Electric Picnic this year?

Are you driving?

Getting the bus maybe - or the train?

Well one man from Co Tipperary is going to run there.

Paddy Ryan is taking on the 80 kilometre challenge from Dublin to the festival site in Stradbally in Co Laois.

He's hoping to raise money for Special Olympics Ireland, the Irish Youth Foundation and Childline.

It comes as 21 new acts are added to the line up including the Boomtown Rats, Villagers, Parquet Courts, the Staves, Le Galaxie, Jape, and the Dublin Gospel Choir.

They'll join headline acts already announced like Blur, Florence and the Machine, Sam Smith and Underworld.

The three day festival - from the 4th to the 6th of September - is now completely sold out.

Paddy says he decided to run the route just to do something different:



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