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 Lithuania’s story. Lithuania debuted at the 1994 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 start with Ukraine’s story – in full. Ukraine debuted at the 2003 […]
UA:PBC, the Ukrainian national broadcaster, has announced the guest artists ahead of Vidbir tomorrow night, Saturday 12th February. Seven guest acts will also appear during the show. The former Junior Eurovision participants will perform together. They are: Go_A – ESC 2020/21 Tina Karol – ESC 2006 Jamala – […]
As those of us who are fans are aware, Strictly Come Dancing returned to UK TV screens in September and through out the weeks so far, we at Eurovision Ireland, have been watching out for any connections between Eurovision and the UK’s very popular dance competition , starting […]
As we have seen , recently with Måneskin’s song “Beggin” being used as one the dance tracks for one of the Strictly Come Dancing 2021 couples, Eurovision often makes its presence felt in the UK’s leading Dance competition. This week, while we haven’t had a former Eurovision song […]
While tonight isn’t a specific #EurovisiionAgain event, the team at the official Eurovision YouTube channel have a special treat in store. The 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, was used as a test event for High Definition broadcasting, although it was only broadcast in Standard Definition. The […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we celebrated the countries that participated in this year’s Contest, in Rotterdam. We are now remembering the countries that had previously participated in the Contest – today we remember Armenia. Armenia […]
Hello dear readers of Eurovision Ireland! Today we continue with our exciting series: One Day Love! Each week we celebrate one song from Eurovision History. Here, you can find facts like: year, country, artist, title of the song, lyrics (translations when the song is in another language other […]
Following on from the ANNOUNCEMENT that “De Eurovisa” will be broadcast as usual, YLE have announced further programming to fill the void of this year’s cancelled Eurovision Song Contest. Three former Contests will be shown in full. 2014 (their best placing since 2006), 2006 (Lordi achieve Finland’s only […]
An old saying warns us to keep our friends close, and our enemies closer… but perhaps it’s just easier to snub them at Europe’s favourite music competition?! Show business is full of famous feuds… Joan Crawford and Bette Davis… Lindsey Lohan and Hilary Duff… Taylor Swift and whoever […]
Armenia’s first ever representative at Eurovision, Andre, has been awarded the highest distinction in Armenia – ‘Honoured Artist of Armenia’. He was presented with the honour by the Armenian President Mr Serzh Sargsyan at an official ceremony on September 21st. Andre has been a successful performer for […]
Belgian 2006 Eurovision singer Kate Ryan pulls an Aram Mp3 and releases ‘Not Alone’. Before you all start screaming that it is too soon to have a Eurovision cover version from the 2014 contest, this in an original song from the ‘Je t’adore’ singer. You may remember Kate […]
Romania – Mihai Traistariu (Romania 2006) has just taken to his Facebook Page to apologise to his fans at his last-minute decision to NOT enter the Romanian Eurovision 2014 National Selection. He had uploaded the song “I’m Sorry” and had asked for his fans opinions on the song. […]
Several weeks ago we introduced you to Gilad Mandelboim – one of the organisers of the “Europhoria” New York Eurovision event and Fan Club. Well last Saturday the guys in NYC partied until the early hours of Sunday morning and the amazing Annet Artani (Cyprus 2006) was on hand […]
Irish Eurovision singer Brian Kennedy, was recently interviewed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by our good friend Ewan Spence from ESC Insight. Brian Kennedy was in Edinburgh where he was performing 2 shows at the world-famous “Fringe Festival”. Ewan caught up with the “Every Song Is A Cry […]