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 Ancient Greek, Andalusian Spanish and Arabic. Ancient […]
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 May 13th: Saturday 13th May 2023 On this day in 2023, the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 1990. 1990 – “Somewhere in Europe” In 1990, when the Contest was held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Liam Reilly represented Ireland with “Somewhere in Europe”. […]
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. Norway rank 21st overall – 61 […]
Mary Kennedy, the host of the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin. She is officially leaving RTE this September, after celebrating her 65th birthday. Mary told the RTE Guide: “I’d love to stay but it’s up to RTE if I go or not. All I can say is that […]
Today really was Eurovision Ireland’s Lucky Day! As well as speaking to Moldova’s DoReDos about their Eurovison 2018 adventure, we also got to chat to Russia’s own superstar Philip Kirkorov too! What do DoReDos have to say about their staging? How do they react when we tell them […]
Twice Eurovision representative Darja Švajger has won a top accolade at the 39th Festival of Slovenia – ‘Slovenska Popevka’. The annual festival is one of the top musical festivals in the Balkan region and is likened to Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival. http://youtu.be/MionrfQW1V8 Saturday night saw the contest take place […]
“I certainly understand that this year will not be easy for us (Russia) at this International contest” are the words from Philip Kirkorov as he puts the finishing touches to the Russian entry for Eurovision. He was approached on March 6th to be involved in the Russian Eurovision […]
Irish Broadcaster RTE have just informed Eurovision Ireland of their new structure at the station. The Executive Producer of the Eurovision Song Contest of 1995 – John McHugh – is the new Head of TV Entertainment at the state Broadcaster. This becomes very interesting as John McHugh will be […]
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