#BIRTHDAY: Andromache is 31 today It’s only natural that you can’t remember every song that had graced a Eurovision stage. For every Waterloo there’s a [insert song here]. In other news, our friends in Greece and Cyprus often swap singers, and there is of course nothing wrong with […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lum!x from Austria is 23 today That thing where you hear a Eurovision song – pre-contest obviously – and think it could really challenge for the win when it gets on that stage. And then, when you see it on said stage, you wonder what you were […]
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 Japanese, Karelian and Latin. Japanese Japanese is the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ochman from Poland is 26 today What do you think of people representing countries other than their birth? It can be more controversial when their birth country and their chosen country both participate. Or is it worse of a country picks any old false-flagger? Today’s birthday boy […]
#BIRTHDAY: Vladana from Montenegro is 39 today Did you miss the countries that sat on the sidelines this year? We know some could return in 2026, but some have made the subs bench their second home. We obviously like bigger Eurovisions, so when the roster is revealed for […]
#BIRTHDAY: Achille Lauro from San Marino is 35 today Every now and then a performance comes along that just sets a new bar for performances. It’s so memorable in so many ways. And these ways are not always favourable. Of course, every song – without exception (well, maybe […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nadir Rüstəmli from Azerbaijan is 26 today You know how some countries that you write off when you first hear their song. And then they hit the big stage and you think they could be in with a chance? Much to your chagrin. In other news, we […]
#BIRTHDAY: Rosa Linn from Armenia is 25 today Occasionally, we get non-winning songs that develop a life of their own. The so-called ‘break-out’ song. Some quarters think that, if you don’t win, your career is over. It may happen to some, but not to all. That’s the fun […]
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 […]
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 14th: Saturday 14th May 2022 On this day in 2022, the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]