#BIRTHDAY: Monica Anghel from Romania is 54 today Our friends in Romania haven’t had it that good of late. After a good run of form for most of this century, we’ve now only seen them in the Grand Final once since 2018. There was even a time when […]
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 25th: Saturday 25th May 2002 On this day in 2002, the 47th 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 1998. 1998 – “Lass ihn” In 1998, when the Contest was held in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, Gunvor represented Switzerland with “Lass ihn”. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sahlene is 49 today That thing when your country wins, meaning you have to host next year. If you’re that winning broadcaster, it must be a year-long headache. Venue, date, theme, hosts – they all must be a nightmare. On top of all that, you still need […]
#BIRTHDAY: Michalis Rakintzis from Greece is 68 today Things got a little odd at the turn of the century. We were trapped in Nordic/Baltic Europe after time in the eastern Med. Countries were taking it in turns to be relegated. And we had some interesting acts. When we […]
#BIRTHDAY: Buket Bengisu from Türkiye is 46 today Our friends in Turkey/Türkiye are taking a sabbatical at the moment, and many of you out there miss them. They brought something slightly exotic to proceedings, and their language – for many years anyway – was alluringly different. Just over […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ira Losco from Malta is 43 today That thing where you enjoy something so much, you want to do it again. We’ve all been there. But how many times has the second time not quite matched up to the first? This has happened often to those winners […]
#BIRTHDAY: Constantinos from Cyprus is 47 today Do you like it when singers try several times? Sometimes they can win on a second attempt. Sometimes they don’t quite do as well as their first appearance. Some even come back after a win. Today’s birthday boy Κωνσταντίνος Χριστοφόρου/Constantinos Christoforou […]
#BIRTHDAY: Manuel Ortega from Austria is 44 today If in doubt, repeat some words in your song lyric. It can sometimes pay dividends. Or it can make it appear that your song was originally two minutes and you needed to pad it out somehow. In 2002, Austria sent […]
#BIRTHDAY: Rosa from Spain is 43 today As we know, only one act can win the big prize each year at our favourite TV show. But some of the performers that get there have already won a competition to get there. In 2002, our friends in Spain launched […]
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