#BIRTHDAY: Darude from Finland is 50 today Can you spot a winner from a first listen? Yes? Well, could you spot a candidate for last place at first listen too? It can be tough at the top, but equally tough at the bottom. Imagine the scene. A certain […]
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 Finnish, French and French Sign Language. Finnish […]
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 English, Estonian and Finland Swedish. English English is […]
The EBU, the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC, the British national broadcaster, are co-producing a new set of concerts celebrating Europe’s great orchestras. Eurovision Classical Concerts is a new music co-production from BBC Arts and the EBU, marking the first new Eurovision classical music collaboration in over […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kristina Hautala from Finland is 77 today Do you think it’s true that some languages sound easier on the ear than others? French songs did well in the early days, before English came along. Other languages, however, never really seemed to hit the mark. Today’s birthday girl […]
Yle, the Finnish national broadcaster, have revealed song submission details for UMK 2026 – their national selection for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. FOLLOWING on from revealing that UMK 2026 will take place on Saturday 28th February, Yle have revealed song submission details. Song submissions will open on […]
Just before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, we asked the readers of Eurovision Ireland which country they thought should have won our beloved contest more than they have. The results are in – but hold on to your hats, it’s about to get more exciting […]
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 2nd, we are continuing with Erika Vikman. She represented Finland with “Ich Komme”, taking 11th place with 196 […]
Yle, the Finnish national broadcaster, have revealed the date for UMK 2026 – their national selection for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. Yle have revealed that UMK 2026 will take place on Saturday 28th February. For a third year in the row, UMK will take place at the […]
The semi finals are over for another year, so that means it’s time for one of the most popular annual articles Eurovision Ireland publishes – it’s time to find out which countries have had their qualification rates improved the most by reaching the Grand Final of the Eurovision […]
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