#BIRTHDAY: Səbinə Babayeva from Azerbaijan is 45 today It’s time for another one of our home entrants today. That poisoned chalice of wanting to win on your home turf, but not wanting to bankrupt your country. What do you do? Today’s birthday girl Səbinə Babayeva had that dilemma […]
#CHRISTMAS2024: Eurovision Ireland Advent Calendar Day 2 Christmas is a-coming, so we at Eurovision Ireland want to share some notable performances by Eurovision acts of festive songs. Some are standards, and some may be new to you. Today’s song is… Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
#BIRTHDAY: Zoë from Austria is 28 today Has the free language rule signalled the death knell for some languages? It’s true that songs in Italian and Portuguese have won in the last few years, but generally English is king. Or in the case of the 2021 contest, perhaps […]
#BIRTHDAY: Boggie from Hungary is 38 today We missed our friends the Magyars, and we want them back. Perhaps mainly because they’ve tried a variety of musical styles down the years. What’s your preferred style? If it happens to be a soft ballad that builds, then today could […]
#BIRTHDAY: Dion Cooper from the Netherlands is 31 today Do you have a penchant for duets? Do you like the close harmonies when two well-suited singers are paired up for a gem of a song? Do you like it when they stand millimetres apart and shout at each […]
#BIRTHDAY: Daz Sampson from the UK is 50 today The ‘novelty’ song. Every contest has them. Just look at Carola. I joke. Carola has never been a novelty. But these songs sometimes do far better than expected. And some we can just point and laugh at. I leave […]
#MONTENEGRO: And the winner is… Montenegro’s national final – Montesong 2024 – to pick a song for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel in May has just finished. After a mix of jury and public voting, the Golden ticket from broadcaster RTCG the winner is… Clickbait by […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sanna Nielsen from Sweden is 40 today Do you prefer a banger of a song, or are you more a ballad-lover? Are you the first on the dancefloor when that Schlager beat kicks off? Or is it something a little slower that tickles your fancy? Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: Michał Szpak from Poland is 34 today What do you think about the modern day system of giving jury and televoting results separately? It sets out how differently those two elements can think, and potentially throw up a surprise winner. In 2016 we saw it for the […]
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 November 25th: Sunday 25th November 2018 On this day in 2018, the 16th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest took […]
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