An accommodation office has been set up in Thurles, tel 0504-23579. No camping allowed in the Thurles area.

Over 35,000 people are expected to attend.

Tickets are available at over 60 outlets nationwide. For 24-hour credit-card bookings, tel 01-4569569.

For special day return trains and buses, contact your local ticket outlet or ring Iarnrod Eireann at 01-8366222, or Bus Eireann at 018366111.

The Day Trip to Tipp is worth just over £6 million to the economy.

A traffic-light system will be enforced on stage to make sure that artists don't run over their allotted time. The light will be green when the artist takes the stage, orange when he has five minutes remaining and red when their time is up. Artists who run over this time will be fined £1,000 per minute.

There will be two giant video screens, with laser disc viewing.

Fans will munch their way through 100,000 hot-dogs, 150,000 hamburgers and 250,000 bread rolls. They will use 10,000 litres of ketchup and drink 250,000 pints of liquids.

Running order on Sunday (starting noon): The Supernaturals, Fluke, The Cardigans, Reef, Foo Fighters, Kula Shaker, Manic Street Preachers, Prodigy.