For the third year, the official ESC Top 250 was broadcast on EFR12, the French radio station. Once again, Loreen retained the top spot with “Euphoria”. While the full results of all 1700+ Eurovision entries can be found HERE, how did Ireland rank within the top 250? 016: Bambie […]
#BIRTHDAY: Maarja-Liis Ilus from Estonia is 45 today If you’re anything like us, you’ll be starting your festivities very shortly. Or it could be tomorrow. Or it could be early next month. Whenever it is, have fun and make the most of it. But enough of a good […]
#BIRTHDAY: Antonio Carbonell from Spain is 56 today Eurovision is a funny old thing. You can be up one moment, and have your hopes dashed the next. Take those pesky semi-finals/preselections for example. You get through, not quite knowing how, but hoping for the best. A precursor to […]
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 Viennese German, Vorarlbergish and Vörå Swedish. Viennese […]
#BIRTHDAY: Regina from Slovenia is 60 today Some think semi-finals are a 21st Century thing. But they go way back, well to the 1990s. In 1996 so many countries wanted to take part that there was an audio-taped pre-selection to cut it down to a mere 23 songs. […]
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 Belarusian, Bosnian and Breton. Belarusian Belarusian is […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ivo Linna from Estonia is 76 today Hooray! A legend’s birthday! Well, we think he is anyway. It’s from the time when a certain Baltic nation started to show us what it could do via the gift of song. It’s a very important thing in that nation. […]
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 18th: Saturday 18th May 2019 On this day in 2019, the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nanne Grönvall from Sweden is 63 today We know that you, dear reader, love Sweden. It’s had numerous wins, and a whole bunch of good results. And because those Swedes like their Eurovision, familiar names keep cropping up. One of those frequent names is today’s birthday girl […]
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 […]