#BIRTHDAY: Margaret Berger from Norway is 36 today Life can imitate art sometimes. For example, I’ll plant this thought: Who do you think I once saw in a food court in sunny Malmö eating a burger? In other news, I’ve found a very powerful song for your birthday-related […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sidsel Ben Sémmane from Denmark is 34 today Today we have a real treat for you. I know there’s a real fan of today’s song amongst the illustrious team of writers. I don’t want to get you too excited, but you probably will be. Our friends in […]
#BIRTHDAY: Luca Hänni from Switzerland is 27 today It’s an old adage that anyone can won our favourite TV show. Portugal, Austria and Finland have proven this in the 21st Century. One win, and a scattering of other reasonable results. So there is hope for [insert country here], […]
#HALL OF FAME: Two more inductees Here at Eurovision Ireland, we want to celebrate those most illustrious people who have made our favourite TV the thing that it is today. In each edition, we’ll induct two performer or personalities from somewhere in Eurovision land. These two inductees won […]
#BIRTHDAY: Constantína from Cyprus is 58 today Some days my wit deserts me. I can easily pick a song. But I can’t tell an interesting story about it. It might be because I was very young when the performance actually happened, or those online sources of reference are […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sonja Lumme from Finland is 60 today I like writing this column, as it sometimes allows me to pick my favourite songs from time to time. Today’s one of those days. But please be assured there were contests before 2001. But which is this legendary song? It […]
#BIRTHDAY: Friderika Bayer from Hungary is 50 today It’s always tricky to be your country’s début entry. Now before you correct me, it is debatable whether today’s birthday girl was her country’s first entrant. But let’s go with it for now. Picture that first time your country was […]
#BIRTHDAY: Mørland from Norway is 41 today I’ve picked a duet today. Don’t you just love them? This duettist wrote the song as well as duetted with Joanna Bussinger. But more of her later. The song is about doing something bad in your past. We’ve all done it, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Romina Power from Italy is 70 today You can’t beat a nice little greeting to get you in a good mood. And today’s song is three minutes of good mood. In fact, if you were to watch the contest this song came from, you’d have about two […]
#HALL OF FAME: The first inductees Here at Eurovision Ireland, we want to celebrate those most illustrious people who have made our favourite TV the thing that it is today. In each edition, we’ll induct two performers from somewhere in Eurovision land. This Irish personality also won our […]