Today, the 2024 UEFA European Championships continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. Today is match day eight, with the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first match of the Championships – Slovakia vs. Ukraine is the nineteenth match. But who will win? For the nineteenth […]
#BIRTHDAY: Amir from France is 40 today Do you ever get caught up in the storms of interest that surround some songs? A momentum builds behind [insert song here] and people think it just has to show up to win. The fan community can sometimes get it very […]
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 18th, we are continuing with Bilal Hassani. He represented France with “Roi”, taking 16th place with 105 points. […]
Today, the 2024 UEFA European Championships continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. Today is match day four, with the eighth, ninth and tenth match of the Championships – Romania vs. Ukraine is the eighth match. But who will win? For the eighth match, […]
#OBITUARY: Françoise Hardy has died aged 80 French singer-songwriter, actress and model Françoise Hardy has died after a long period of ill health, aged 80. Whilst France, she represented Monaco in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest. Françoise was born in Paris in 1944. After a troubled childhood she […]
#BIRTHDAY: Amandine Bourgeois from France is 45 today It’s an old adage that anyone can won our favourite TV show. If the song’s good enough, it’ll shine through. And past performance is no guide to future performance. Take France for example, only going and finishing second in Rotterdam […]
#BIRTHDAY: Roger Bens from France is 66 today It’s often debated which song contest is the best one ever. The one that took place in Göteborg/Gothenburg in 1985 will rank there among the best. It had some great songs, some tight voting, and Lys Assia. Representing France – […]
Just over a week has gone by since the Grand Final of Eurovision 2024 took place in Malmö, Sweden and we saw Nemo, from Switzerland crowned the winner with their song “The Code”. Now that the dust is settling and before we look ahead to JESC 2024 and […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nathalie Pâque is 47 today You may think that the winners are the most important things to come out of the contest. They are one of them, obviously, but sometimes you have to look deeper to pick out other important aspects. Today’s birthday girl brought about a […]
#ESC24: Live Blog the Grand Final, Dress Rehearsal 1 – from 12:30 BST/13:30 CEST The Friday afternoon technical rehearsal is the first time we get to see how the Grand Final hangs together. It’s bound to involve a few hiccups here and there, but it’s also bound to […]