The EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, have revealed the first set of names for the 70th anniversary tour, which will follow the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna. This morning, the EBU announced the first seven acts that will be taking part in the 70th anniversary tour – […]
Yle, the Finnish national broadcaster, has revealed the artists for UMK 2026 – their national selection for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna. The seven artists in UMK 2026 were revealed this evening, during a live broadcast on Yle TV 1 and YLE Areena. The seven entries […]
Yle, the Finnish national broadcaster, has revealed the record number of song submissions for UMK 2026 – their national selection for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna. Yle have revealed that they have received a record number 491 song submissions ahead of UMK 2026 – 9 up […]
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 […]
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 Finnish, French and French Sign Language. Finnish […]
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 English, Estonian and Finland Swedish. English English is […]
The EBU, the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC, the British national broadcaster, are co-producing a new set of concerts celebrating Europe’s great orchestras. Eurovision Classical Concerts is a new music co-production from BBC Arts and the EBU, marking the first new Eurovision classical music collaboration in over […]
Yle, the Finnish national broadcaster, have revealed song submission details for UMK 2026 – their national selection for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. FOLLOWING on from revealing that UMK 2026 will take place on Saturday 28th February, Yle have revealed song submission details. Song submissions will open on […]
It’s June and it’s Pride month. Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are going to highlight some of the LGBTQ+ artists to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. For June 2nd, we are continuing with Erika Vikman. She represented Finland with “Ich Komme”, taking 11th place with 196 […]
Yle, the Finnish national broadcaster, have revealed the date for UMK 2026 – their national selection for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. Yle have revealed that UMK 2026 will take place on Saturday 28th February. For a third year in the row, UMK will take place at the […]