#BIRTHDAY: 25 Feb – Evridiki from Cyprus is 58 You have to admire those that keep coming back time after time. The first couple of times, you sing a song written by your fiancé/husband. The third time, you don’t. It’s a story as old as time. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: 21 Feb – Kali from France is 67 Do you remember the times when countries had to sing in their national languages? It was easy for some – German all the way, for example if you were Austria. Or a choice of four if you were Switzerland. […]
The EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, have revealed the first set of names for the 70th anniversary tour, which will follow the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna. This morning, the EBU announced the first seven acts that will be taking part in the 70th anniversary tour – […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lotte Nilsson from Denmark is 60 today A duet. That chance to get two singers for the price of one. Sometimes there’s chemistry, sometimes not. That can be part of the appeal of the duet – do they really get on? Today’s duet is set around a […]
#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 […]
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 Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovak. Serbian Serbian is the standard […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sigga from Iceland is 63 today It’s repeat offender time again. You know the sort – They have a good/bad/indifferent result when they take part a first time. They get the bug and come back again. Repeat as necessary. Today’s birthday girl Sigga (née Sigríður Beinteinsdóttir) appeared […]
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 Maltese, Martinican Creole and Montenegrin. Maltese Maltese […]
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 1991. 1991 – “Canzone per te” In 1991, when the Contest was held in Rome, Italy, Sandra Simó represented Switzerland with “Canzone per […]
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 9th: Saturday 9th May 1998 On this day in 1998, the 43rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
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