RTÉ, the Irish national broadcaster, have begun the 2026 Dancing With the Stars celebrity reveals today. The former Irish Eurovision representative, Niamh Kavanagh, was the first celebrity to be revealed earlier today. Niamh took victory at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest with “In Your Eyes”, before returning as […]
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 Japanese, Karelian and Latin. Japanese Japanese is the […]
It’s June and it’s Pride month. Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are going to highlight some of the LGBTQ+ artists to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. For June 27th, we are continuing with Harel Skaat. He represented Israel, with “Milim”, taking 14th place with 71 points. […]
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 […]
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 2007. 2007 – “Vampires Are Alive” In 2007, when the Contest was held in Helsinki, Finland, DJ BoBo represented Switzerland with “Vampires Are […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 2009. 2009 – “Et Cetera” In 2009, when the Contest was held in Moscow, Russia, Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy represented Ireland with “Et […]
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. Romania rank 17th overall – 90 […]
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. Germany rank 7th overall – 201 […]
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. Munich Munich hosted the 1983 Eurovision […]