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 Maltese, Martinican Creole and Montenegrin. Maltese Maltese […]
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 Latvian, Latvian Sign Language and Lithuanian. Latvian […]
The Irish podcast, ‘The Comeback’, recently spoke to Joe McCaul, who represented Ireland at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, alongside his sister Donna with their song “Love?” – however they failed to qualify from the semi final. During the podcast, Joe McCaul had the following to […]
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 21st: Saturday 21st May 2005 On this day in 2005, the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
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 1998. 1998 – “Lass ihn” In 1998, when the Contest was held in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, Gunvor represented Switzerland with “Lass ihn”. […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 2003. 2003 – “We’ve Got the World” In 2003, when the Contest was held in Riga, Latvia, Mickey Harte represented Ireland with “We’ve Got […]
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. Romania rank 17th overall – 90 […]
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 14 and Game 25 of the tournament. England (UK) will be playing Spain, while Italy will be playing Belgium – both from 20:00 GMT/21:00 […]
On the lead up to the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, which is been held in Turin, we are looking back at the countries participating in the Contest and their histories – past and present. Today we continue with Moldova’s story. Moldova debuted at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, […]
On the lead up to the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, which is been held in Turin, we are looking back at the countries participating in the Contest and their histories – past and present. Today we continue with Bulgaria’s story. Bulgaria debuted at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, […]