BIRTHDAY: Marianna from Greece is 64 today As I’ve said before, there were Eurovision Song Contests before the year 2000. Can you imagine that? A 20th Century contest? Well, some of them even churned out good songs. Can you believe it? Well today’s song comes from the 1980s. […]
BIRTHDAY: Mando from Greece is 53 today Have you noticed that the last few birthdays have featured singers using stage names. Maybe it’s a thing to give them a completely different persona to the off-stage singer. But it’s interesting that stage names can be very different to real […]
BIRTHDAY: Michalis Rakintzis from Greece is 62 today Things got a little odd at the turn of the century. We were trapped in Nordic/Baltic Europe after time in the eastern Med. Countries were taking it in turns to be relegated. And we had some interesting acts. When we […]
He’s back – James’ nephew and Eurovision Ireland’s youngest contributor, 6 year-old Jack is taking a look at the rest of the songs taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019! After giving us his thoughts on songs heading to Junior Eurovision in Minsk last year, we were […]
It’s been exactly a week now since all the songs for Eurovision 2019 were released. You’ve made your Top 10s and have your favourites, but now the dust has settled and everyone has had a chance to hear everything – what are the bookies thinking? We deliberately waited […]
GREECE: Song for Eurovision 2019 revealed Greek broadcaster ERT has revealed the song it hopes will bring a second victory in the Eurovision Song Contest to Greece. Katerina Duska, a Canadian-Greek, was chosen internally and will sing Better love. She has co-written the song with former UK Fame […]
BIRTHDAY: Helena Paparizou from Greece is 37 today People win the contest. From time to time anyway. There could be some contests where no song should have won, and the EBU should have told them to go away and try harder next year. But winners we have, and […]
BIRTHDAY: Christie from Greece is 63 today All countries can have their day. And as others have said, anyone can win our favourite TV show. Austria or Portugal are two cases in point, where an indifferent track record has been interrupted by a win. These days, Greece has […]
BIRTHDAY: Agathonas Iakovidis from Greece is 64 What do you like about Eurovision? The singing? The costume? The fact that various culture from about our fair continent lock horns in a battle that can only make for the betterment of Europe? It’s none of these. It’s about alcohol. […]
We have seen all of this year’s participating countries rehearse once so far this year – but what about the countries thats have participated in the Contest previously? Greece Greece were the first nation ever to take to the stage at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, when it […]
In this series of polls, Eurovision Ireland are going to look at countries that have won the Eurovision Song Contest and get you to vote for your favourites. Sounds simple? Well, yes, it is – the twist is, we’re grouping them according to how many times each country […]
One of the best things about Eurovision is that it moves every year – so not only does every contest give you another set of songs to enjoy, but it also gives you a brand new host city to explore and fall in love with! But just how […]
Welcome to the continuation of our new series of articles that we are running every Wednesday across the summer – #WinnersWednesday. This week as a one off, it’s on a Thursday – just like television schedules been mixed up during the World Cup. Every week, we will look […]
Eurovision 2018 will always stand out in the history books for the year that 3 countries lost their 100% qualification rates from the semi-finals. Many of us here at Eurovision Ireland never dreamed we’d see the day Russia or Romania failed to make it into Saturday night’s main […]
Once we’d found out all of the acts competing here at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, we here at Eurovision Ireland created a poll to find who YOU, the Eurovision Ireland readers thought would qualify for the Grand Final from the 1st semi final. We then combined […]
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