An Irish comedian has claimed on Twitter that excrement was smeared on the walls and roof of portaloos at Electric Picnic.

The annual festival made its return for the first time in three years at the weekend, with headline sets from Dermot Kennedy, Tame Impala and Arctic Monkeys.

Martin Beanz Warde, who performed at the Comedy Tent on Saturday afternoon, made the claim after many took to social media to express their frustrations with how the campsites were left on Monday morning.

'In all my life I have never seen dirtier people than those that were at EP this weekend. Excrement up along the walls and the roof of portaloos, the campsites were left like dumps.

'I know everyone says it's all part of the experience, but I just think it's absolutely disgusting,' he wrote on Twitter.

Martin emphasised that his claim is not a 'dig at the festival' but a critique of those who weren't mindful with how they treated the venue's facilities.

In all my life I have never seen dirtier people than those that were at EP this weekend. Excrement up along the walls and the roof of portaloos, the campsites were left like dumps. I know everyone says it's all part of the experience, but I just think it's absolutley disgusting.

'The organiser made sure those toilets were cleaned everyday. It was the general public who were being disgusting. How does anyone manage to get excrement on the roof? The public left the campsite like a dump too,' he said.

Those in the comments section shared some of their experiences at the festival, with one person claiming that despite there being a 15,000 increase in capacity there was 'the same amount of portaloos'.

One person said: 'Some of the sights I've seen at festivals I will never unsee.'

'Another added: 'EWWW. I totally agree. That is a new low.'

While one person argued: 'I wouldn’t be blaming attendees for the state of the jacks, but you do you.'

On Monday morning the campsite was filled with piles of rubbish, broken equipment and lots of abandoned tents and air mattresses. In 2018 a  bulldozer was required to remove all the tents as a result of the regular occurrence.

The organiser of the three-day event Melvin Benn said the key to making the festival greener is for attendees to reuse their belongings.

'That goes for tents in particular. But of course, we can’t force people to do things. If they do leave their tents behind, that’s not a problem. This happens. We then just collect it responsibly, separate it and recycle everything that can be recycled,

'Some of you will take a picture of rubbish and put it on the front page and say the Electric Picnickers left a load of rubbish. People do leave rubbish, but what you don’t always go on to say is this will all be separated appropriately, and reused and/or recycled,' he said.

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