Eurovision Ireland has tonight heard the sad news that Marinella, who represented Greece in their very first participation in Eurovision in 1974, has passed away at the age of 87 . Marinella performed at the contest in Brighton with the song “Krasi Thalassa ke t’agori mou”. She came […]
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 Greek, Hebrew and Hungarian. Greek Greek is […]
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 1973. 1973 – “Je vais me marier, Marie” In 1973, when the Contest was held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Patrick Juvet represented Switzerland […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 1965. 1971 – “One Day Love” In 1971, when the Contest was held in Dublin, Ireland, Angela Farrell represented Ireland with “One Day Love”. […]
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 April 6th: Saturday 6th April 1974 On this day in 1974, the 19th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
For the second year, the official ESC Top 250 was broadcast on EFR12, the French radio station. For the first time since 2021, Loreen returned to the top spot with “Euphoria”. While the full results of all 1700+ Eurovision entries can be found HERE, how did Sweden rank within […]
The BBC Strictly Come Dancing series 2024 edition is now in full swing . As we have done over the last years, this year we will continue to look for any connections to Eurovision throughout the series. Last Saturday saw Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans and professional dancer […]
During June, we celebrated Pride month here at Eurovision Ireland, by highlighting some of the LGBTQ+ artists to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. For August 3rd, we are extending our Pride celebrations with a certain 50th anniversary that you might have heard about during May. Today, […]
Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue 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 2020. Sweden rank 13th overall – 147 […]
The cold days are with us again, the nights are drawing in…which means the return of the popular BBC Competition Strictly Come Dancing .What has Strictly Come Dancing got to do with the Eurovision Song Contest,you may ask? Well, during each series we often see a connection between […]
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