#BIRTHDAY: 31 July – Ira Losco from Malta is 45 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 […]
It’s June and it’s Pride month. Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are going to highlight some of the LGBTQ+ artists to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. For June 24th, we are continuing with Sarit Hadad. She represented Israel with “Light a Candle”, taking 12th place, with […]
#BIRTHDAY: 23 June – Marie N from Latvia is 53 Do you like a cutting edge lyric? Especially one that people who might not be fans would pick up on. It’s a different matter when it’s looked at in context. The lyric “Ay ay ay ay ay ay…” […]
#BIRTHDAY: 23 May – Malene from Denmark is 44 It a sad truth that for [almost] every Eurovision Song Contest, there is only one winner. That means a whole heap of losers non-winners. And out of all those non-winners, there’s always a last place. As past performance is […]
#BIRTHDAY: 11 May – Anna Sahlene is 50 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, […]
#BIRTHDAY: 9 Apr – Vesna Pisarović from Croatia is 48 There’s a long list of countries that have never won our favourite TV show. Will one of them win this year in Vienna? Or will it be somewhere dull? However, there is one country that claims a win, […]
#BIRTHDAY: 14 Jan – Rosa from Spain is 45 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 […]
#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”. […]
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