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 Swedish, Tahitian, and Torlakian. Swedish Swedish is a North […]
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 […]
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 March 12th: Saturday 12th March 2022 On this day in 2022, the 62rd edition of Melodifestivalen took place in Stockholm. Cornelia […]
Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue (although the Opening Ceremony takes place tomorrow) 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 […]
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 nineteen, with the tour continuing in the French city of Embrun. […]
On August 12th, the SHORT LIST for the 2023 Host City was revealed. While we don’t know where the Eurovision Song Contest will be held next year until the Autumn, we thought we’d look back at the cities that have already hosted the Contest. Harrogate Harrogate hosted the 1982 Eurovision […]
#BIRTHDAY: Solange Berry is 89 today Today we’ve picked an even grander dame. Singing for a Grand Duchy. As you’ll know, we’ve not seen Luxembourg participate since 1993, so this song might be before some of you were even born. It might be a song from before when […]