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Oxegen is an annual music festival, held since 2004, sponsored by Heineken. It was previously called Witnness, which ran from 2000 and was sponsored by Guinness. The event is promoted by MCD. Oxegen was originally a two-day festival but for 2008 was expanded to three days. It takes place at the Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare, Ireland and has an average attendance of around 80,000 a day, with around 70,000 of these camping on site for the duration, and the rest travelling to the site each day. The festival has attracted attention from outside Ireland, with many of those attending travelling from overseas. [1] Oxegen has also attracted some negative publicity, particularly following the 2006 festival. This is attributed to such factors as the age of admission -17- and easy access to alcohol. [2]

As well as the current eight stages of music, there are three large areas for camping which are subdivided by number and the colours blue, red and green - which is the VIP campsite. The backstage and media areas are located in the middle of the site in the buildings normally used to watch the races. Stalls and shops are also provided for festival-goers, as well as toilet and shower areas for campers from 2006 onwards. A Centra store was located in each campsite from 2007 onwards [3] and An Post first appeared at the festival in 2008. [4] The toilet facilities, which had previously been criticised by some as not being adequate for the large number of people at the festival, were improved in recent years.[citation needed] There is also a funfair adjacent to the arena, featuring a big wheel and other rides, such as the "Magic Carpet", the "Big Drop", and the roller coaster. In 2008, an additional funfair was located in the blue campsite alongside other campsite entertainment such as a circus, silent disco and the Xbox Live Stage. [5] Glass in any form is banned from the festival site and bottle corks, cans and umbrellas are banned from the concert arena. [6]