Shameless Pimping: Electric Ireland #tweetemhome Race from Dublin – Galway

So this is the story. Electric Ireland (the ESB) are holding a charity race from Dublin to Galway and back. Three celeb teams – Team A Joe Rooney and Mundy in the DeLorean supporting Concern; Team B Katie Van Buren and Andrew Stanley in the New York Taxi supporting the Irish Cancer Society, and Team C Brent Pope and Keith Barry in the Renault Trophy supporting the ISPCC – are competing to bag €20,000 for their chosen charity. Each team has to bag petrol for their tank by having their hashtag used on Twitter, mentioned on Facebook, and by doing various challenges along the way… and each team has an online supporter. Culch.ie is the official supporter of Team A, Joe Rooney, Mundy and our lovely driver Ian O’Flynn. It takes place Thursday 8th and Friday 9th, each day we’ll be stopping in towns along the way to do challenges. … There’s more

Pics: The ESB Electric Ireland Park @ Electric Picnic

A giant hamster wheel, see-saw, swings and more in delightfully grown up sizes will make up the ESB Electric Ireland Park at EP this year. Each one will generate energy for festivalgoers to charge their phones. Pictured above is comedian Karl Spain at the launch of the playgroundtacular news, and as well as Karl there’ll be a bunch of other comedians overseeing proceedings and running challenges throughout the weekend. These include Andrew Stanley, Gearoid Farrelly and Damian Clark. More pictures from the launch after the cut…