#BIRTHDAY: Dana from Ireland is 74 today Winners. We love ’em. Well, mostly. We always get the winner we deserve. But perhaps, just perhaps, there are winners that shouldn’t have been winners. Do you agree? In 1970, we witnessed a pocket-sized contest in Amsterdam Amsterdam. Dana (née Rosemary […]
It’s back ! As we are now well into post Eurovision season, we at Eurovision Ireland are continuing our series , Here Today, Gone Tomorrow , where we look at former Eurovision stars and what happened to them following their time representing their country at Eurovision . As […]
Building on the success of our Best of the Big 5 series, Eurovision Ireland is broadening its search for your favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue – starting with Ireland! You’ve gone through decades worth of songs, choosing your 20 finalists. […]
IRELAND: Fifty years since Dana If you were around 50 years ago tonight, you may have witnessed Ireland’s first ever win the Eurovision Song Contest. A mere five years after we saw Ireland début in Naples, Dana took home the prize at the RAI Theatre in Amsterdam. Dana, […]
BIRTHDAY: Dana from Ireland is 68 today Eurovision announcement! What could be better? Well, an announcement that it’s your own city, or that you put a bet on the host city three months ago at 100/1 and it’s come up trumps. It’s apt that today we found out […]
Stars from London’s top West End musicals went head to head in a sing-off of Eurovision Song Contest classics in the annual charity show in aid of “The Make A Difference Trust” which provides support and education to those suffering from HIV/AIDS in the UK and South Africa. […]
EUROSONG – “All Kinds Of Everything” gets a make-over. Yes the first Irish wining entry at Eurovision 1970 has been given the Petra treatment and we don’t mean the “I know a Drag Queen” Petra – we mean the Belgian Petra who last weekend qualified for the Belgian […]
BELGIUM – Tonight another 4 acts progressed to the Semi Finals of “Eurosong 2014” in Belgium and a further 4 acts made it to the “Call Backs” or second chance phase. This was the second casting show where the acts performed Eurovision covers. The Contestants and Their Results […]
Dana, Ireland’s first Eurovision winner from 1970, has announced that she will be travelling to the Middle East as she hosts a special tour of all the famous Biblical locations. Dana was asked by the organisation “Christians in Entertainment” to become involved in this initiative. “I was thrilled […]