Internal selections have been held by RTE, the Irish national broadcaster, to select the Eurovision Song Contest every year, since 2016. With the exception of 2018, Ireland have failed to qualify for the Grand Final. There have now been calls to return to a national selection. Micheal Kealy, […]
Having a party on Zoom tonight for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest? Want to make your guests think you’re a Mastermind of the Contest? Before you give out your 12 points tonight, take a look at our Top 10 Trivia pieces for the Eurovision 2021 so […]
It has been announced that Ireland’s 2018 Eurovision Song Contest entrant, Ryan O’Shaughnessy, will be returning on Saturday night to deliver the Irish jury votes. Ryan achieved 16th in the Grand Final, in Lisbon with 136 points – with the song “Together”. Here is one of the many […]
As you loved these articles in 2018 and 2019, we knew we had to crunch the numbers again for 2021! Now that the semi finals are done and dusted, we can take a look at whose all important qualification rate has benefitted the most from reaching Saturday night’s […]
Let’s face it… the last 18 months have been anything but ordinary!! And in these strange times of COVID, social distancing and frantic hand washing, even Eurovision has undergone massive changes to ensure the event we know and love can go ahead. We all knew it was going […]
Tonight, the First Semi Final of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest will be taking place, live from Rotterdam. Eurovision Ireland are aware that you will want to discuss your potential qualifiers and all the performances across Social Media, so here are the hashtags you will need: Lithuania – […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Jury Semi-final One The team at Eurovision Ireland team watched the First Jury Semi-final. What were our thoughts on who may qualify, and who may miss out? Stay tuned for more on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and TikTok. Author/Source: Eurovision Ireland
#ESC2021: Live Blog of the the first Jury Semi-Final – 20.00 BST/21.00 CET The serious stuff is starting. Tonight is that part of the week then the international juries start to pick their favourites. The televoters get their go on Tuesday night. Join Us as we blog all […]
With only a matter of days to go before the First Semi Final, we thought we’d have a look back at the second rehearsals of the participating countries. Would you like a reminder of what we thought? Have a look back at our #LiveBlogs from their first and […]
Ireland took victory at the 2021 Free European Song Contest. Rea Garvey achieved 116 points with his song “The One”. Amy MacDonald finished in joint 3rd for Scotland with “Statues” and 77 points, while the Mighty Oaks finished in 9th for England with “Mexico” and 60 points. You […]
Let’s face it… the last 18 months have been anything but ordinary!! And in these strange times of COVID, social distancing and frantic hand washing, even Eurovision has undergone massive changes to ensure the event we know and love can go ahead. We all knew it was going […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland scores… Day Five The Eurovision Ireland team today saw a massive fifteen countries rehearse. We gave what we saw our considered opinion, and awarded our favourites of the day the usual scores of 12 down to one. This means a top score of 60. What […]
#ESC 2021: Day Five Rehearsals Blog from 10.00 CET Well, we have now seen the first rehearsals of both the 1st and 2nd semi finals and today at 09.00 BST/10.00 CET we kick off with the start of the second set of rehearsals , starting with Semi final […]
Over the course of April and May, on the lead up to the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, we will be celebrating the countries that are participating this year in Rotterdam. Today is the final day and we celebrate Ireland. Ireland debuted at the Contest in 1965, in Naples, […]
ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland scores… Day Three The Eurovision Ireland team today saw another nine songs rehearse. We gave what we saw our considered opinion, and awarded our favourites of the day 5, 4, 3, 2 and one point. This means a top score of 25. What did we […]
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