Wexford GAA give club players weekend off for Electric Picnic

Electric Picnic fans watch Billie Eilish perform on the main stage in 2019

Wexford GAA have taken the unprecedented step of calling a gap week in club championship action at the end of this month, which coincides with the staging of the hugely popular Electric Picnic music festival.

Round five of the hurling championships had originally been fixed for the weekend of August 29-31 but Model chiefs decided last month to put the schedule back a week following early exits for the Wexford senior hurlers and footballers.

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