#BIRTHDAY: Xandee from Belgium is 47 today Have you ever liked one of those songs that the fans think will win by a country mile, only for it to not quite come up to expectations? Eurovision is littered with songs like that, and it’s arguable one of those […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tom Dice from Belgium is 36 today Do you ever wish a certain country could win, not because they have the best song, but because you want to visit it? Or maybe you want your own country to win so you don’t have to spend huge amounts […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mustii from Belgium is 35 today Would you like to see Belgium win first prize in our favourite TV show soon? As we know, we have to look back nearly 40 years to their only win to date. But as a country that has participated since the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Morgane from Belgium is 50 today Have you ever thought that some performers might not want to be at our favourite TV show? Or that they might want to shed their image as a Eurovision performer when they turn their back on music for, say, a career […]
#BIRTHDAY: Blanche from Belgium is 26 today Plucky little Belgium. Three words that always whet the appetite. Well, they have been participating since 1795, only missing three years. So there are a lot of singers to choose from. As you’ll know, the Belgians have a strict policy of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Philippe Lafontaine from Belgium is 70 today Do you like it when a song uses geographic references in a song? Do you hope that – one day – your town, city or country will be name-checked in a song? You might have more chance if you live […]
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 […]