#BIRTHDAY: 10 Sept – Stoyan Yankoulov from Bulgaria is 60 There’s a word we want to use today, as today’s song reminds us of it. It might feature in this article, or we might save it for another time. Our friends in Bulgaria took a while to find […]
#BIRTHDAY: 4 Sept – Dado Topić from Croatia is 77 We celebrate all manner of things with our birthdays. The winners, the losers, the ‘also-ran’s. They all count, and you can guarantee that someone out there will like every single Eurovision song. So just occasionally, a song might […]
#BIRTHDAY: 2 Sept – Stevan Faddy from Montenegro is 40 You know when you’re new at something, and you’re really enthusiastic about it? You want to make a good impression, and so you put on your best frock, your best voice, and you try to be dead nice. […]
#BIRTHDAY: 4 July – Eiríkur Hauksson from Iceland is 67 Today we’ve got one of those performers who keeps coming back. Once isn’t enough. Neither is twice. So maybe third time lucky is the way to go. Today’s birthday boy Eiríkur Hauksson has tried three times to win […]
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 15th, we are continuing with David Ducasse. He represented the United Kingdom, as part of Scooch, with “Flying […]
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 14th, we are continuing with Javi Soleil. He represented Spain, as part of D’Nash, with “I Love You […]
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 13th, we are continuing with Ola Salo. He represented Sweden, as part of The Ark, with “The Worrying […]
#BIRTHDAY: 31 May – Sopho Khalvashi from Georgia is 40 The first decade of this century saw a big expansion of the amount of countries taking part in our favourite TV show. Fifteen countries débuted. That’s more countries than took part in the first contests. One such début […]
#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: 2 Feb – María Ólafs from Iceland is 33 We all have our favourite songs. And there are those songs that are always popular. Those songs that will always feature in, for example, a Top 250. And then there are other songs… Occasionally you’ll hear that song […]