The first rehearsals are now over, so let the second rehearsals of the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest begin! Today see’s the first ten acts take to the stage again, but in reverse order – you know the drill, join me, Richard from 08:00CET by regularly refreshing the […]
It’s time! Let the rehearsals and the first #LiveBlog of the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest begin! Today see’s the first ten acts take to the stage for their first rehearsals – you know the drill, join me, Richard from 11:00CET by regularly refreshing the page for all […]
Eurovision Ireland is expanding! We tasked one of our new writers to tell us about their relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest – so enough from me, here’s Sade to tell us more! I get asked quite often “Sade, when did you start watching Eurovision?” and “What’s your […]
You can’t deny, rumours of the Eurovision Asia Song Contest taking place next December has taken up a step or two over the last week – mainly thanks to the City of Gold Coast. Blink TV and SBS hold the rights to the Contest through to 2031. Their […]
At the start of October, the out-going Managing Director of SBS, Micheal Ebeid, had announced that there was geo-political difficulties in arranging the planned Eurovision Asia Song Contest. At the time, he did say however: “We have put all our energy into this other idea we’re planning to […]
For many years, fan’s of the Eurovision Song Contest Down Under have been use to getting up in the early hours to watch various National Finals from across Europe. Now it’s the European’s turn to wake up in the early hours of a Saturday morning in 2019 when […]
Last night, Lee Lin Chin read her final news bulletin for SBS. Lee Lin Chin has left SBS to pursue new projects. Not only did she read the news on the channel for 30 years, she was also the original spokesperson for the country at the Eurovision Song […]
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 […]
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 […]
For statisticians, the Eurovision Song Contest is a gold mine of random trivia. For example, we wrote quite a bit recently about Finland and Cyprus never both making it to the final in the same year. 2018 saw this happen for the first time in 16 years. But we’ve […]