RTK, the Kosovar national broadcaster, have announced that they will broadcast the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, live from Basel. RTK will be broadcasting the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest live, as they have every year since 2006. All the shows will be broadcast on RTK1, with a commentary team […]
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 9th: Saturday 9th May 1998 On this day in 1998, the 43rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
Zapping, the Chilean local streaming service offering Pay TV channels, will broadcast the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, live from Basel. Zapping will be streaming the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest live, as they did in 2024 – however this year the Semi Finals will br broadcast alongside the Grand […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 2009. 2009 – “Et Cetera” In 2009, when the Contest was held in Moscow, Russia, Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy represented Ireland with “Et […]
#BIRTHDAY: Helen Micallef from Malta is 75 today We have a duo for you today. A duo from the 1970s. Until that decade, we’d mainly seen soloists, but duos and the occasional trio did feature. That made a duo sort of a middle ground. A bit of variety […]
It’s that time of year again when the next two weeks are given over to the fun and excitement of the build up to the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest, this year to be held in Basel , Switzerland. My colleagues , John ,James and Richard are already out […]
Femke Verschueren from Belgium, has turned 25 years old today. Femke represented Belgium, at the 2011 Junior Eurovision Song Contest – finishing in 7th place, with “Een kusje meer”. Happy Birthday, Femke! Let us know what you think about the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – either in the […]
Rehearsals are well and truly underway in Basel and while all first and second rehearsals are closed to the Press, we are still able to see very short clips of rehearsals via social media platforms such as Tik Tok and Facebook . We at Eurovision Ireland have been […]
Being surrounded by other Eurovision fans, discussions inevitably turn to what if… what if that song had been better staged? What if they’d had a better spot in the running order? What if that saxophone hadn’t sounded like a weasel being beaten to death with bagpipes? During these […]
This year, as we have in recent years, we have had a slightly different start to the Eurovision Song Contest. We haven’t got access to the first week of rehearsals. We have hopefully adapted to this to bring you the coverage you have all grown to expect. Day […]