#BIRTHDAY: Carlotta Truman from Germany is 26 today Have you noticed that some countries seem to be in the doldrums? No, not the windless areas near the equator, but in our favourite TV show. They try their hardest, put loads of effort in, and yet don’t yield a […]
#BIRTHDAY: Joci Pápai from Hungary is 44 today Eurovision these days is all about English, isn’t it? No other language gets a look in, does it? English is always the way forward. It wasn’t necessarily the case in 2017, and non-English songs have now won two of the […]
Some would say that the secret of the success of a song is its publicity. If you can get your song into the public conscience, then you’re well on the way to doing well. Such was the pathway followed by today’s birthday boy بلال حسني/Bilal Hassani. Towards the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ester Peony from Romania is 32 today What do you think of stage shows? Should they be kept simple, in order to emphasise a song? Or is there anything wrong in a kickass dance routine or novel staging? Both can work. Just look at the contrast between, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Darude from Finland is 50 today Can you spot a winner from a first listen? Yes? Well, could you spot a candidate for last place at first listen too? It can be tough at the top, but equally tough at the bottom. Imagine the scene. A certain […]
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 Finnish, French and French Sign Language. Finnish […]
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 begin the series with Abkhaz, Albanian and Amharic. Abkhaz Abkhaz, also […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nevena Božović from Serbia is 31 today It’s good to celebrate people in Eurovision circles that blaze a trail. Those that do achieve a first. Like Milly Scott for example. Or even Lys Assia. Today it’s birthday girl Невена Божовић/Nevena Božović (now Ивановић/Ivanović). Why, you may ask, […]
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 […]
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 2019. 2019 – “She Got Me” In 2019, when the Contest was held in Tel Aviv, Israel, Luca Hänni represented Switzerland with “She […]
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