Every Monday for the next few weeks, we will be looking back at former participating nations at the Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we look back at Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country who has made the Final 18 times, 2016 been the only year not to qualify for […]
Earlier, the news broke that Dustin The Turkey wants to participate again at the Eurovision Song Contest – but this time for the United Kingdom. While we have a sneaking suspicion what the answer will be, please vote below: Author: Richard Taylor Source: Eurovision Ireland
After representing his own country ten year’s ago in Belgrade, Serbia, Dustin The Turkey has announced some news that’ll make some UK Eurovision Song Contest fans cause shivers down their backs. After not qualifying from the semi final back in 2008, Dustin now wants to take to the […]
Yesterday, Teddy Johnson passed away at the age of 98. Teddy Johnson represented the United Kingdom alongside his wife, Pearl Carr, back in 1959 with ‘Sing Little Birdie’. They finished 2nd in Cannes. Video: YouTube/Sing Something Simple Teddy met Pearl in 1950 and continued as a double act […]
Welcome to a new series of articles we will be running every Wednesday across the summer – #WinnersWednesday. Every week, we will look back at three winners from Eurovision Song Contest past. 1956: Switzerland In 1956, the 1st Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Teatro Kursaal, Lugano. […]
Every Monday for the next few weeks, we will be looking back at former participating nations at the Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we look back at Andorra – the only country never to appear in a Eurovision Song Contest final. Andorra debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest […]
Just before the contest this year, it was revealed that a Eurovision Song Contest board game would soon be going on sale, giving fans across the globe the chance to live their dreams and win the contest for themselves! The game was available for pre-order and sold out […]
Earlier today on the Crimean coast, twelve entries took to the Artek stage for the Russian National Final of their Junior Eurovision Song Contest selection. Anna Filipchuk was picked through a 50/50 jury/public vote. Anna will be going to Minsk with the song ‘Nepobedimy’, meaning ‘Invincible’ in English. […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we look at what happened at the Eurovision Song Contest and Family of Events #OnThisDay. Today is 29th May 2018 and we look at the last time Israel hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. 29th May – 19 Years Ago Today On this day in […]
Eurovision 2018 will always stand out in the history books for the year that 3 countries lost their 100% qualification rates from the semi-finals. Many of us here at Eurovision Ireland never dreamed we’d see the day Russia or Romania failed to make it into Saturday night’s main […]