Last night at 21:30 local time Eurovision Village opened his gates for the eagarly waiting fans from all over the world. Located at Terreiro de Paco, Eurovision Village will feature “concerts by Portuguese artists, performances by this year’s contestants, tributes to the great names of Portuguese music, as […]
Yesterday, the last 6 countries took to the Eurovision 2018 stage for their first rehearsals. These were host nation Portugal and the Big 5: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Now all 43 competing countries have rehearsed! Yay! Who was your favourite? Has anyone gone up […]
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW The ‘Eurovision Legends’ tour is going on the road and coming to a venue near you. Eurovision Winners Niamh Kavanagh, Linda Martin, the ‘Rock N Roll’ Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan will be joined by Tommy and Jimmy Swarbrigg, Karen Black, , The Eurovision […]
#ICELAND: Interview with Ari Ólafsson at Eurovision 2018 Eurovision Ireland caught up with Ari from Iceland. Not at the dull old press centre. Nor at their hotel. We spoke to him outside the Oceanário de Lisboa on the waterfront on a beautiful afternoon. He told us about his […]
#IRELAND: Ryan makes the most of Lisbon After second rehearsals yesterday the Irish delegation went for lunch. Ryan’s mum Janet bought him a good luck rock n roll teddy bear for the trip so he’s become the Irish team mascot! A fan has even set up an […]
#IRELAND: Ryan performs at the Swedish Embassy Ryan is busy making friends. Not only has he been larking about the Ari from Iceland and Zibbz from Switzerland, but he now been to the Swedish Embassy in Estoril. Ryan performed ‘Together’ on the roof terrace of the embassy. As […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we look at what happened at the Eurovision Song Contest and Family of Events #OnThisDay. Today is 5th May 2018 and we look at Italy’s last victory twenty eight year’s on. 5th May – 28 Years Ago Today On this day in 1990, the […]
#SWITZERLAND: Interview with Zibbz at Eurovision 2018 Eurovision Ireland caught up with Zibbz from Switzerland. But not at the press centre or their hotel. We spoke to them outside the Oceanário de Lisboa on a beautiful sunny afternoon. We hear about Eurovision in the USA and who they […]
Just when you’d thought you’d had your fix of Live Blogs from us this year during the National Final season, we are back for daily Live Blogs from Lisbon – home of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. You can follow the LIVE BLOG HERE – as always […]
Each day, I aim to bring you a couple of highlights and lowlights from this year’s Contest here in Lisbon. What did Day 6 have to offer us? Highlights France stole the show as the last rehearsing country of the day. Simple, yet effective and no messing about […]