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, 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 Latvian, Latvian Sign Language and Lithuanian. Latvian […]
The Irish podcast, ‘The Comeback’, recently spoke to Joe McCaul, who represented Ireland at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, alongside his sister Donna with their song “Love?” – however they failed to qualify from the semi final. During the podcast, Joe McCaul had the following to […]
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 21st: Saturday 21st May 2005 On this day in 2005, the 50th 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”. […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 2003. 2003 – “We’ve Got the World” In 2003, when the Contest was held in Riga, Latvia, Mickey Harte represented Ireland with “We’ve Got […]
#BIRTHDAY: Marian van de Wal from Andorra is 55 today We have some interesting matching of nations. Latvia and Burkina Faso. Ukraine and Congo-Brazzaville. And there’s today’s singer. Maybe not quite as exotic, but just as noteworthy. Today’s birthday girl Marian van de Wal is Dutch by birth, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Javine from the UK is 43 today It’s that odd time when we’ve all got over Christmas (unless you’re orthodox) and we’re waiting for that end digit to tick over to a ‘5’. Has it been a good year for you? In a previous year that ended […]
#BIRTHDAY: Martin Vučić from North Macedonia is 42 today Who, among the list of countries that have never won, would you like to see win? And why? Is it because they have had good songs in the past? Is it because they have decent food and drink? Is […]
Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue 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 2020. Romania rank 17th overall – 90 […]
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