This year, the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest featured a record breaking twenty languages. Eurovision Ireland will be looking at all the languages that have been performed at the Contest, since 1956, in our latest #AtoZ. Today, we continue the series with Norwegian, Polish and Polish Sign Language. Norwegian […]
This year, the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest featured a record breaking twenty languages. Eurovision Ireland will be looking at all the languages that have been performed at the Contest, since 1956, in our latest #AtoZ. Today, we continue the series with Lithuanian Sign Language, Luxembourgish and Macedonian. Lithuanian […]
As we all know , Austria won the 2025 edition of the Eurovision Song contest in Basel, with JJ and “Wasted Love”. Which means that next year, we will be travelling to somewhere in Austria for the 2026 edition of our beloved contest. JJ’s victory in Basel was […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, we will be looking back at Switzerland since their first participation. Today we begin with 1956. 1956 – “Refrain” In 2056, when the Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland, Lys Assia represented Switzerland with “Refrain”. Lys finished in […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are taking a historical look back on our favourite Contests past and present, on the very day they took place. Today it’s March 29th: Saturday 29th March 1969 On this day in 1969, the 14th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue (although the Opening Ceremony takes place tomorrow) and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. We will be celebrating the best of Eurovision participating countries, ranked by their gold medal success at the Summer Olympics, up to and including Tokyo […]
Today, the 2024 Tour de France continues and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. During the Tour, we will be looking at the Italian and French winning entries of the Contest. Today is stage eighteen, with the tour continuing in the French city of Gap. […]
During the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, Sam Ryder secured the United Kingdom a record sixteenth second placing. The last time the United Kingdom reached this position was in 1998, one year after their last victory. Today we start to look back at the second placings. 1959 Pearl Carr […]