İctimai TV the Azerbaijani national broadcaster, have confirmed their participation at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. While Nurlana Jafarova, Azeri Head of Delegation, confirmed the news, she also admitted that preparations have been delayed while decisions are been made by the İctimai TV management. Nurlana Jafarova also hinted […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nadir Rüstəmli from Azerbaijan is 26 today You know how some countries that you write off when you first hear their song. And then they hit the big stage and you think they could be in with a chance? Much to your chagrin. In other news, we […]
This year, the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest featured a record breaking twenty languages. Eurovision Ireland will be looking at all the languages that have been performed at the Contest, since 1956, in our latest #AtoZ. Today, we continue the series with Aramaic, Armenian and Azerbaijani. Aramaic Aramaic is […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dihaj from Azerbaijan is 36 today When an act takes to the Eurovision stage, there will be have been a whole lot of planning to decide costumes, backing singers and dancers, and setting. At least, we hope there have been planning meetings. Today’s birthday girl Dihaj (née […]
#BIRTHDAY: Eldar Gasimov from Azerbaijan is 36 today It’s duo time! And with two singers you get double the chance of seeing what could be your favourite song played. And, for some, this will be their favorite song of all time. Cast your mind back to 2011. A […]
The semi finals are over for another year, so that means it’s time for one of the most popular annual articles Eurovision Ireland publishes – it’s time to find out which countries have had their qualification rates improved the most by reaching the Grand Final of the Eurovision […]
#ESC25: And the first ten qualifiers are… The first semi-final of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest has just finished. Fifteen countries went in, but only 10 have got the gold-ish tickets to proceed to the Grand Final on 17 May. But who are the lucky ten? In the […]
#ESC25: Best Eurovision lyric Part I As we know, a song can live or die on that killer lyric, and could even rely on a single line in that lyric. We at Eurovision Ireland have had a look through the lyrics of the songs competing in Basel, and […]
The First Semi Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is just around the corner, coming to us live from hip Basel, Switzerland on Tuesday 13th May at 21:00PM CET (make sure you check your local listings to find out where you can watch!) Soon enough we’ll know who makes […]
#BIRTHDAY: Efendi from Azerbaijan is 34 today It was in 2020 when things changed. That contest we were all looking forward to in Rotterdam was almost upon us, and then it got cancelled. Luckily, for many of the acts chosen, they got a free pass to 2021 when […]