A team of volunteers from a charity collected more than 200 tents and 900 sleeping bags for the homeless after Electric picnic concluded.
The members of 'Feed Our Homeless' collected the camping gear left behind by revellers as the festival wrapped up.
It comes as news that the number of homeless children in Ireland has increased by 103 , according to figures released by the Department of Housing, Dublin Live reports.
Founder and chief executive of the charity Tony Walsh outlined the importance of the tent collection to the homeless community.
He said: “These tents and sleeping are vital to our to help our charity carry out our frontline outreach service's sleeping bags and tents are a big part of the work we do on the streets each day to help homeless people sleeping rough on the streets stay warm also dry now the winter is coming in more importantly they can help keep a homeless person alive and stop them from getting hypothermia with the winter months coming in.
“Due to the massive increase of homeless people sleeping rough on our streets at night in tents around the City FOH team of volunteers are given out four-to-five tents and up to 10 sleeping bags every single night to homeless people sleeping rough around the city.
“Feed Our Homeless are a non profit non funded 100% charity.
“These sleeping bags and tents will make a big difference to our charity as our team will have sleeping bags and tents in stock for our outreach teams on the streets.
As the summer draws to an end winter begins to draw nearer, every available tent and sleeping bag will count, according to Walsh.
He added: “Our teams on the frontline will be in a position to distribute these sleeping bags and tents out to rough sleepers over the winter months ahead.
“When we collect these sleeping bags and tents the community here in Portlaoise will wash and dry them and bring them back to new as they were only used over the weekend here.
“I would like to thank all our volunteer for giving up their time this morning to come down to Electric Picnic and help gather up all the tents and sleeping that would have been wasted and thrown out.
“I would also like to thank Tom Duffy who went above and beyond to get the community on board to wash and dry all the sleeping bags that will make all the difference to a homeless person sleeping rough on our streets in the freezing cold weather at night."
