#OGAE: ESC 2018 International Poll The fan clubs around Europe and beyond continue to register who they think could win the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. You can find the first eight sets of votes HERE. Three more sets of votes are now in. Have they changed who’s leading? […]
#INTERVIEW: Eurovision Ireland speaks to Finland’s Saara Aalto Before the 2018 London Eurovision Party at the fashionable Café de Paris, Eurovision Ireland was granted a special audience with none other than Saara Aalto, who will sing ‘Monsters’ on Tuesday 8 May for Finland. In her sumptuous ‘Saaratorium’, she […]
#INTERVIEW: Eurovision Ireland speaks to Montenegro’s Vanje Radovanović Before the 2018 London Eurovision Party at the fashionable Café de Paris, Eurovision Ireland caught up with Vanja, who will sing ‘Inje’ on Thursday 10 May for Montenegro. He told us about his hopes for Eurovision. Do you think Montenegro […]
#INTERVIEW: Eurovision Ireland speaks to Iceland’s Ari Ólafsson Before the 2018 London Eurovision Party at the fashionable Café de Paris, Eurovision Ireland caught up with Ari Ólafsson, who will sing ‘Our choice’ on Tuesday 8 May for Iceland. He told us about a move from Iceland, his love […]
#INTERVIEW: Eurovision Ireland speaks to Portugal’s Suzy Before the 2018 London Eurovision Party at the fashionable Café de Paris, Eurovision Ireland caught up with Suzy, who sang her heart out for Portugal in 2014 in Copenhagen. She told us what to expect in Lisbon, what the ladies should […]
#INTERVIEW: Eurovision Ireland speaks to Ryan O’Shaughnessy Before the 2018 London Eurovision Party at the fashionable Café de Paris, Eurovision Ireland caught up with our own representative. He told us about his forthcoming travels, as well as the story about his video and the glue that holds his […]
#IRELAND: The story behind ‘Together’ ‘Together’ received its first airplay on 9 March on the Ray D’Arcy show on RTÉ Radio 1. It was later played by Chris and Ciara filling in on Eoghan McDermott’s show on 2FM. The video depicts a young couple strolling through the streets of […]
#IRELAND: #AllAboard as the song and video are revealed At last we have news from Ireland. RTÉ and Ryan O’Shaughnessy has unveiled the song that they hope will capture that eighth victory for Ireland. Ryan will perform in the second half of the first semi-final on Tuesday 8 […]
#IRELAND: Ryan O’Shaughnessy is #AllAboard for Lisbon Irish broadcaster RTÉ has announced that Ryan O’Shaughnessy will represent his country in Lisbon in May with the song ‘Together’. RTÉ is delighted to announce the ballad “Together” penned by Ryan O’Shaughnessy, Mark Caplice and Laura Elizabeth Hughes as Ireland’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Singer-songwriter Ryan […]
Who will represent Ireland at Eurovision 2018? Well we could know the answer to that in a few hours. The band Heathers seem to be now out of the frame according to The Sun newspaper. It now looks like a “solo male artist.” “Ding Dong” – Irish singer […]
Ireland is getting ahead of the game for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. Here’s the press release from broadcaster Raidío Teilifís Éireann: “RTÉ announced today that it is inviting accomplished songwriters and performers with a proven track record of success in the music industry to submit a song to […]
Today we continue the first week of our ongoing weekday series called “Tracks of my Eurovision Years”. Just like on the BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce show, each day will see two of the contributors ten songs for that week. Contributors will come from both the Eurovision Ireland […]
Today see’s the start of our ongoing weekday series called “Tracks of my Eurovision Years”. Just like on the BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce show, each day will see two of the contributors ten songs for that week. Contributors will come from both the Eurovision Ireland team, as […]
So we’re starting to get hints out of RTÉ that after this year’s disappointing show at the Eurovision, we might just be going back to having a national final to select our song next year. But what form will it take? Here are nine suggestions…
As you will have seen on Thursday night, Brendan Murray was not one of the lucky ten acts to make it through to Saturday night’s Grand Final of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision Ireland managed to get this quote from Brendan on his experiences this year. We […]