Another former and winning participating country will not be returning to the line-up in Warsaw. Croatia won the inaugural Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003, before withdrawing in 2007. Croatia took part in one further Contest in 2014. HRT, the Croatian national broadcaster, have put financial restraints as […]
In this series from Eurovision Ireland, we will be taking a look at the participating countries and their entries that have avoided the dreaded ‘Nul Points’ in the Grand Final – thanks to just one other participating country. Today we look at Belgium. 1961 In 1961, Belgium was […]
Welcome to Eurovision Ireland’s first ever A-Z of the Eurovision Song Contest. Over the next few weeks, we will be bringing you some alphabetical memories from everyone’s favourite Song Contest. Today, we are at the letter H. Harrogate Harrogate, hosted the twenty-seventh Eurovision Song Contest in 1982 – […]
We have grown to know and love Eurovision over the years and since its debut way back in 1956, when Lys Assia took home the very first trophy in Switzerland,we have seen many artists come and go through the contest all enjoying their time of glory in front […]
#BIRTHDAY: André from Armenia is 39 today It’s début time again, and one that saw an expansion into the Caucasus – that area some claim is Europe and some claim is Asia. We’re not going to discuss that geographical question here. Today’s birthday boy Անդրեյ Սերգեյի Հովնանյան/André Sergey […]
German broadcasters NDR, ZDF and KiKA have announced that they have joined forces for a debut at this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Warsaw. Germany will be the 40th and final Big Five country to participate in the Contest. Dr. Astrid Plenk, the Director of Programming at […]
#BIRTHDAY: Omar Naber from Slovenia is 39 today Many people can claim to have a unique record in our favourite TV show. It could be their country’s only winner. Or the only person to win twice as a performer. More often – probably – are people who share […]
#EUROVISION: Review of Fire Saga As you’ll know, the film The Story of Fire Saga has now hit the screens, and has received every possible review out there. We at Eurovision Ireland have taken a different approach, and selected two of the stand out songs to talk about […]
Hello dear readers of Eurovision Ireland! Today we continue with our a new series: One Day Love! Each week we will celebrate one song from Eurovision History. Here, you will find facts like: year, country, artist, title of the song, lyrics (translations when the song is in another […]
Let’s face it, for all the complaining that the Big 5 have it easy at the Eurovision Song Contest, it’s actually not so glamourous. Sure they get an automatic spot in the final, but for many years this didn’t translate into placing on the scoreboard! In this new […]
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