#BIRTHDAY: Anja Nissen is 25 today If you were representing a country at Eurovision, other than the one you were born in, how would you decide which one to choose? Maybe it’s where your family came from originally. Today’s birthday girl Anja Nissen is Australian by birth, but […]
#BIRTHDAY: Emly Starr from Belgium is 63 today Our friends in Belgium are a curious bunch. Plucky as ever, and taking part since the first contest (1956 in case you were wondering), and only ever had one win. It’s a nice arrangement that the broadcasters for the two […]
Swedish broadcaster SVT has revealed more details of Melodifestivalen 2018. The six cities hosting the four semi-finals, the second chance and final have been announced, and if you’re planning on attending them all, you’ll soon rack up those miles around Sweden. The venues and dates are: Semi-final 1 […]
As you may know, Portugal’s Salvador Sobral was not well in Kyiv, and only spent the second week of rehearsals in the city. Fast forward to September, and he had to cut short a music tour he was undertaking. Here’s footage from RTP of his last concert… for […]
So last night we had the second Semi Final of Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv and what a fantastic show it was. We of course now know our winners and losers here. So as well as 10 countries happy to go to the Final we also have 8 countries sadly disappointed […]
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 […]
Here it is. It’s the draw for the Grand Final on Saturday night. 1. Israel 2. Poland 3. Belarus 4. Austria 5. Armenia 6. Netherlands 7. Moldova 8. Hungary 9. Italy 10. Denmark 11. Portugal 12. Azerbaijan 13. Croatia 14. Australia 15. Greece 16. Spain 17. Norway 18. […]
It’s not all work work work for Brendan Murray at Eurovision. He has been able to get out of the bubble and see a bit of the city. And what a beautiful city it is by the pictures below. Watch Brendan sing tonight in the second semi-final at […]
Eurovision Ireland got access to the exclusive Red Carpet event in Kyiv. All of the acts showed off their best frocks and outfits and strutted their stuff on a swelteringly sunny day near the Maryinskiy Palace in Kyiv. We caught up with some of the acts. They told us […]
Eurovision Ireland got almost exclusive access to the Irish party held at O’Brien’s Irish pub in central Kyiv. Brendan and his team laid on a small affair that featured him singing a few songs, including ‘Dying to try’. Also there were guest appearances from Tijana from Serbia, Claudia […]