Last weekend in Amsterdam, Ryan O’Shaughnessy joined up with SuRie to perform “Mercy” – last year’s French entry at the Eurovision Song Contest, performed by Madame Monsieur. The performance took place at Amsterdam Calling, on the eve of Amsterdam In Concert – the first of this year’s Preview […]
Yesterday, Ireland’s 2017 Eurovision Song Contest participant Brendan Murray announced his new UK and Ireland tour – “If I’m Honest Tour 2019”. The tour kicks off in Newcastle and concludes in Galway. The full list of dates are: Newcastle – June 21st Manchester – June 22nd Glasgow – […]
Next year, Riverdance will tour the United Kingdom, celebrating a magnificent 25 years in a reinvention of this true favourite. The tour will take in 25 different towns and cities across all four nations of the United Kingdom. The tour kicks off on 10th March in Bournemouth, while […]
Recently, a new YouTube name is on everyone’s lips when it comes to Eurovision song reviews. That name is Maxxy Rainbow, the young drag queen from Pittsburgh, USA that has a passion for the Eurovision Song Contest. As she has stated a couple of times, Maxxy has roots […]
IRELAND: Who wrote ’22’ for Tel Aviv? Meet the songwriters Behind every song there songwriters. If we remember that the Eurovision Song Contest is a contest for these people, then we need to give them the credit they deserve. Ireland’s song ‘22‘ has three songwriters behind it. But […]
BIRTHDAY: Molly Sterling from Ireland is 21 today We like today’s birthday girl, and not just because she’s Irish. Some of us went on a boat trip with her, and chewed the fat for hours. It was a defining moment in 2015. It’s apt that the day Ireland […]
IRELAND: Sarah McTernan to perform ’22’ in Tel Aviv RTÉ has revealed the act, and song and video that will represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The song entitled “22” will be performed by Sarah McTernan and was written by Janieck, Marcia “Misha” Sondeijker and Roulsen. Speaking about being selected […]
TG4 have confirmed via their official Twitter feed that Ireland will once again be at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – this year will be Ireland’s fifth participation. While no further information has been released, we expect Junior Eurovision Eire to be used once again as their National […]
EDITORIAL: How do you pick a song? Don’t worry, we’re not using a certain Norwegian in this editorial, as we know small children sometimes read our work. You may have read around the Internet about the selection processes of certain countries. We at EI think this needs to […]
BIRTHDAY: Phil Coulter is 77 today Today’s a different birthday. It’s not always about the singers, although they’re the people you associate with any given song. There’s a whole team behind them. We shouldn’t forget that our favourite TV show a songwriter’s contest. So today it’s the birthday […]