#BIRTHDAY: Freddy Quinn is 94 today It’s good to remember our roots. Yes, the 1950s may be an increasingly further distance away, but it’s where our favourite TV show started, and set good foundations. So let’s go back to that first contest in sunny Switzerland, one midweek May […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mathé Altéry from France is 98 today We like taking chances here, and I’ll wager that, unless you’ve down your research, you may not know today’s song. It’s probably never ever been played at the typical Eurovision disco. Back in 1956, on some Thursday night in May, […]
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 Icelandic, Irish and Italian. Icelandic Icelandic is […]
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 Finnish, French and French Sign Language. Georgian […]
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 Finnish, French and French Sign Language. Finnish […]
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 Dalmatian Croatian, Danish and Dutch. Dalmatian Croatian […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are taking a historical look back on our favourite Contests past and present, on the very day they took place. Today it’s May 24th: Saturday 24th May 2008 On this day in 2008, the 53rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, we will be looking back at Switzerland since their first participation. Today we begin with 1956. 1956 – “Refrain” In 2056, when the Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland, Lys Assia represented Switzerland with “Refrain”. Lys finished in […]
Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. We will be celebrating the best of Eurovision participating countries, ranked by their gold medal success at the Summer Olympics, up to and including Tokyo 2020. Switzerland rank 25th overall – 53 […]
Today, the 2024 Tour de France continues and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. During the Tour, we will be looking at the Italian and French winning entries of the Contest. Today is stage twenty, with the tour continuing in the French city of Nice. […]
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