It will be a busy weekend on the roads as the All-Ireland Hurling Final is held and the summer festival season draws to a close.
Thousands of hurling fans will be bound for Croke Park on Sunday when Tipperary take on Kilkenny in the senior final and Galway and Kilkenny meet in the minor match.
Most traffic will travel towards Dublin on the N7 Limerick/Dublin Rd so this route is likely to be very congested, according to AA Roadwatch.
Iarnród Éireann will provide special services for supporters, with trains travelling from Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick Junction, Thurles and Waterford on Sunday morning. One of those services, the 9.10 am train from Kilkenny, is already booked out.
Iarnród Éireann has also updated its arrangements for commuters using services on the Dublin to Belfast line, following last month's collapse of the viaduct at Malahide.
From Sunday, a revised train service will operate in both directions between Belfast and Drogheda with a direct bus connection between Drogheda and Dublin Connolly. Bus arrangements have also been updated on www.irishrail.ie.
Shuttle buses and taxis will be ferrying back and forth between the Electric Picnic site at Stradbally and Portlaoise train station this weekend as the three-day boutique festival gets under way. Some 30,000 music fans are expected to attend the festival.
AA Roadwatch was reporting very heavy traffic for traffic heading south on the M7 this afternoon. Bus Éireann was reporting travel times of two-and-a-half hours from Dublin city centre to the site.
Some car parks have been relocated following heavy rain in recent days, and changes have been made to the festival traffic plan to accommodate this.
Further north, the Monaghan Rhythm and Blues Festival begins today and continues until Sunday.
In Dublin, the Fringe Festival opens tomorrow and will continue for two weeks. Close to 100 events have been planned for more than 40 venues around the city.
This will the last year of the Spiegeltent at the Fringe Festival, and a string of shows have been planned at George's Dock in the IFSC to mark its departure.
Meanwhile, the Bulmers Comedy Festival opens on Sunday in venues around Dublin and will run for three weeks.
