Forever Young Festival 2023 14th-16th July

My heart goes out to ye lads. What a **** weekend.

Posted a few minutes ago on Facebook

Forever Young Festival announcement 

We are so sorry to announce that due to the extreme unseasonal weather conditions, the safety team at Forever Young Festival need to postpone ALL day visitors to the festival until tomorrow, weather permitting.

We are heartbroken to bring you this news, but everyone's safety has to be our priority.

Saturday ticket holders and weekend no camping ticket holder sadly can not be admitted to site. 

Anyone on site is at present unaffected and we intend to run the show to a reduced audience. 

We are so sorry

Please watch our social media for further updates

Herself is up there camping and they are pulling out. Ground is so wet at this point the tent pegs won't stay in the ground. Amazing the difference between last years weather and this.

Jesus that's a disaster. Just drove past the area on the motorway as I heard that statement on the radio this morning, the weather has been atrocious in fairness but can't recall a festival in Ireland doing that before?

Thanks for posting. I have day ticket for tomorrow. Presumably we won't be allowed in either as Saturday day holders wouldn't be happy if Sunday day trippers were then allowed in. I wonder when we'll know.

Just checked the weather for tomorrow - heavy showers thunder and lightening in the afternoon. They can't have double capacity day trippers there tomorrow - makes no sense given the conditions. They really should just cancel this now. Def Leppard and Motley Crue last week was a washout but this does seem to be worse.

Same thing happened at Standon Calling two years ago when I was there - the show was pulled from the Sunday lunchtime.

I feel so sorry for the organisers.

It's now almost 5pm on Saturday and they still haven't commented on whether Saturday and Weekend Non Camping tickets can attend tomorrow or if tomorrow is going ahead at all for those with Sunday day tickets. Bonkers stuff.

Was there last night to see Squeeze essentially .

Had to park a long way from the concert field as a day ticket holder . No problem going in once we clicked where we were meant to be going ( bad festival directions supplied ) and we were not going early, 7.30 ish .

It stopped raining heavily at 8 PM .so we stayed along with many others in the car till then .

We brought some seats and sat at the back to start with .

Heineken bars had beer on draught and plastic non disposable cups for all drink given on arrival. No cans or drink allowed in . Heavy searching by security as flagged .

Very cold and windy but apart from the odd spit the night was dry.

Hothouse Flowers..hmmm..zzzzz.....then livened up with XSM Simple Minds Tribute .

Moved up to main arena in front of stage for Squeeze. They were brilliant for their whole set , loved it .

Crowd were in great form a lot of people decked out and Abbaesque finished us off !

All very enjoyable .

Bit mucky in all walking areas but especially vehicle entrances and exits . Well lit and stewarded and plenty of police doing traffic control on the way out . Much better than Malahide Castle which was positively dangerous to get out of , but pretty close to M7 for access so it helps.

I really credit Fienta for their organisation of this . It is a shame the weather is destroying what would be a well run and good fun festival this year. They should have had contingency plans though to cover areas or weather proofing or even cancelling as they knew this torrential weather was coming this week .

It's quite dangerous underfoot .

One thing we noted to start with was no matting on walkways which were turning to sludge as early as yesterday .

It's not like EP as the age group is heavily skewed towards people in their 50s and 60s , but young at heart 😊

Already today campervans are being pulled out by tractors it's so bad , and weekend people leaving . Campervans at least are staying dry .

It rained heavily till 5 according to friends there for the weekend but they are hopefully going to have a dry night tonight .

A sea of muck though .

Any word on how yesterday went? Weather seems to have been OK early on but a torrential downpour from 430pm to 5pm in the area. FY Instagram is showing Billy Ocean and Andy Bell from Saturday and Hothouse Flowers from Friday but nothing from yesterday??

Glad to hear it.

I think the last few years has been relatively good for outdoor festivals, it's a long time since there has been a washout like this. People were lulled into a false sense of confidence about outdoor festivals in Ireland in fields. Because most of the age groups at this festival were in the 50+ bracket they probably won't chance it again ,they are not as forgiving as 20 somethings mucked to the eyes at Glastonbury

I left for a bus straight after ABC who finished at 10.30 so I'd guess Bananarama finished around 11.30 ish

I saw them at Electric Picnic once, they were good.

I'd say they went down well last night, there was a big crowd, the rain was well stopped and they would have had a bag of hits

I was one of the unlucky ones - in the hotel in Naas, dressed and heading for the bus when we got the text. 250 euro spent on a hotel for nothing so while I feel for the organisers, it did really sting especially as the gig was going on 10 minutes away anyway. Doubt Id buy a ticket again

A lot of angry posters on the FY Facebook page. Mainly at the ad hoc decision who to admit and who not on the Saturday, and no updates on Saturday at all re Sunday. It seems very strange that Saturday tickets would suddenly be allowed access on the Sunday alongside Sunday ticketholders if the reason for the Saturday refusals was health and safety. It must have been packed to the rafters in there yesterday.