#BIRTHDAY: Gianluca Bezzina from Malta is 32 today Are there any countries you would love to see win for the first time? Well there aren’t that many left, but some are dying to lose their winning virginity, as we saw in Rotterdam. Today we look at the Mediterranean’s […]
#BIRTHDAY: Katerine Duska from Greece is 32 today Our friends in Greece are vociferous Eurovision fans. It’s true they had a really purple patch some time ago, when they could do absolutely no wrong. Those top 10 places started in 2001, and generally continued about a dozen years. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nodar Tatishvili from Georgia is 35 today That thing when you get a well-performed duet at our favourite TV show. In theory, you get two able performers, who bounce off each other, giving us the best of both worlds. It’s odd that more duets haven’t won the […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nadav Guedj from Israel is 23 today As we know, some people are born in a different country to the one (or ones) they eventually sing for in our favourite TV show. For some, it’s obvious they’re a false flagger, but for others less so. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tijana Bogićević from Serbia is 40 today Balkan, Balkan, Balkan. And so on. That’s where we are today, and things have a definite Cyrillic flavour. We’re with a country that burst onto the Eurovision scene in 2007. That’s Serbia. Yes, the place who’s capital is Belgrade had […]
#BIRTHDAY: Séverine Ferrer is 44 today It’s always sad when a country decides to sit out Eurovision. For a year is understandable, but there are a few we’ve not seen for many years now. Are they still paying attention to our favourite TV show? Or do they have […]
#HALLOWE’EN: Eurovision goes bump in the night Hallowe’en and Eurovision. Does it scare you? Do you tremble on 31 October when you get a sinister knock at your door? Are you relieved when you find out it’s only the local kids going trick-or-treating? Or do you leave the […]
#HALL OF FAME: Our ninth and tenth inductees Here at Eurovision Ireland, we want to celebrate those most illustrious people who have made our favourite TV show the thing that it is today. In each edition, we’ll induct two performer or personalities from somewhere in Eurovision land. These […]
#BIRTHDAY: Eric Saade from Sweden is 31 today Hold on folks, we have a Swedish birthday today. It’s not one of those Swedes who won our favourite TV show, although no doubt some fans out there think he should have done. In 2011, today’s birthday boy Eric Saade/إريك […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nelly Ciobanu from Moldova is 47 today Europe is full of countries, some of which are better known than others. Those lesser-known countries see our favourite TV show as a way to publicise themselves on a big stage. And sometimes, the way to do this is to […]