The First Semi Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is just around the corner, coming to us live from hip Basel, Switzerland on Tuesday 13th May at 21:00PM CET (make sure you check your local listings to find out where you can watch!) Soon enough we’ll know who makes […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kojo from Finland is 72 today In our favourite TV show, it’s easy to be winners one day, tail-enders the next. Hero to zero, or vice versa. It’s all good fun. We love them all, as they’ve done something most of us will never do. Today’s birthday […]
#ESC2025: Eurovision Ireland’s scores If you’ve been watching our seven videos reviewing the 37 songs in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, you’ll know we scored them. But how did they do? Each of our five reviewers scored each song out of 10. So there was a maximum of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Helen Micallef from Malta is 75 today We have a duo for you today. A duo from the 1970s. Until that decade, we’d mainly seen soloists, but duos and the occasional trio did feature. That made a duo sort of a middle ground. A bit of variety […]
Being surrounded by other Eurovision fans, discussions inevitably turn to what if… what if that song had been better staged? What if they’d had a better spot in the running order? What if that saxophone hadn’t sounded like a weasel being beaten to death with bagpipes? During these […]
#BIRTHDAY: Maria Christian from Ireland is 60 today It’s often interesting how certain Eurovision stars crop up in the most interesting of places. Many just get three minutes on stage, and then it’s back to teaching, dentistry, or politics. Today’s birthday girl Maria Christian (aka Maria McCabe and […]
#BIRTHDAY: Maggie MacNeal from the Netherlands is 75 today A host broadcaster never wants to win. They may tell you otherwise, but deep down they know that our favourite TV show is something that would get expensive if the hosts had it for a second – or even […]
#ESC2025: Eurovision Ireland reviews As in previous years, the Eurovision Ireland team has reviewed the 37 songs taking part in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel. Over the course of seven shows, we give our thoughts and see if we can pick a winner. You can find […]
#BIRTHDAY: Anjeza Shahini from Albania is 38 today Cast your mind back, if you can, to when your country first took part in the Eurovision Song Contest. A time for optimism and hope. Who knows, that win or good placing was just a few voters away. Naturally, there […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ramón from Spain is 40 today We will soon have a new winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. Who will it be? One of the lucky qualifiers from a semi-final? Or the defending country? Or one of the Big Five? In other news, today’s birthday boy is […]
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