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 Russian, Samogitian, and Sanskrit. Russian Russian is an East […]
Charlotte Perrelli, two-times winner of Melodifestivalen, as well as the winner of the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest, wants to represent Spain. In an interview with Expressen, Charlotte Perrelli spoke about her dream to represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest. Charlotte Perrelli had the following to say: “The […]
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 29th: Saturday 29th May 2010 On this day in 2010, the 55th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
During the last week, while we had restricted press access , we at Eurovision Ireland have been taking a look back at some of the memorable moments of Eurovision over the years. There is no doubt that Eurovision over the years has often given us lots of rather […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 1996. 1996 – “The Voice” In 1996, when the Contest was held in Oslo, Norway, Eimear Quinn represented Ireland with “The Voice”. Eimear finished […]
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 Croatia rank within […]
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 […]
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 […]
On August 12th, the SHORT LIST for the 2023 Host City was revealed. While we don’t know where the Eurovision Song Contest will be held next year until the Autumn, we thought we’d look back at the cities that have already hosted the Contest. Harrogate Harrogate hosted the 1982 Eurovision […]
Today, the 2022 UEFA Women’s European Championship continues and we will be celebrating it this year, with a Eurovision twist. Today sees Match Day 6 and Games 9 & 10 of the tournament. Austria will be playing Northern Ireland (UK) from 17:00 GMT/18:00 CET. England will be playing […]