#BIRTHDAY: Səbinə Babayeva from Azerbaijan is 43 today It’s time for another one of our home entrants today. That poisoned chalice of wanting to win on your home turf, but not wanting to bankrupt your country. What do you do? Today’s birthday girl Səbinə Babayeva had that dilemma […]
#BIRTHDAY: Samra from Azerbaijan is 28 today We’ve got a birthday today for one of our friends from Azerbaijan. As you’ll know, they won once and would love to win again. They tend to use non-Azerbaijani songwriters, but that hasn’t held them back. That might be why they […]
Ictimai, the Azeri national broadcaster, have denied a non-participation at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in the United Kingdom. Rumours of a non-participation is due to a lack of the Eurovision Song Contest been mentioned in the new season programming publication. Alasgar Valiyev, Deputy Chief of Staff of […]
At the start of April, Eurovision Ireland entered its 10th anniversary year. Now that the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest and its aftermath is over, we thought it was about time we got around to celebrating. Some of the current team, along with some of our contributors, have put […]
#BIRTHDAY: Aisel from Azerbaijan is 33 today When your country has a good record in our favourite TV show, it puts extra pressure on performers to keep up this tradition. But there will come a time when that country will do badly. In 2018, our friends in Azerbaijan […]
This afternoon, the European Broadcasting Union released a statement surrounding the voting irregularities of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania & San Marino. The statement can be seen below: “This year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was an enormous success in bringing hundreds of millions of people across the world […]
Buona Sera Europa , Buongiorno Australia! After all the excitement of last night’s First Semi Final, the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 continues with the Jury Show for Semi Final 2! Tonight at Turin’s PalaOlimpico, the 18 countries taking part in the 2nd Semi Final will perform their entries […]
#ESC2022: Semi-final Two predictions As you’ll know, we at Eurovision Ireland reviewed the 40 songs (plus one other) from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. We gave each one a score out of 50. You can find our seven reviews on the Eurovision Ireland Youtube channel HERE. But what […]
#BIRTHDAY: Aysel from Azerbaijan is 33 today Do you have an all-time favourite duo? Is it one of those pairing that achieve notoriety, like a certain Belgian twosome from 1973? Or someone a lot more recent like two Spaniards in 2018? Either way, we love duets as they […]
#ESC2022: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part VI We at Eurovision Ireland have taken a look at the songs participating in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (plus one other). In seven reviews, we pick apart the songs, and see if we can find our favourite. You can find some of […]