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 One Eurovision Ireland has looked in depth at today’s rehearsals. We can’t comment on Australia as we didn’t see their stage show. How did we score the other six acts? We gave three, two and one point to our favourite three. Do […]
#ESC 2021: Day One Rehearsals Blog from 10.00 CET After the best part of two years, we finally get a proper rehearsal of performances for a Eurovision Song Contest. Yes, at 09.00 BST/10.00 CET we kick off with the first songs from the First Semi-Final. REMEMBER: This year […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviewed… Over several weeks, we at Eurovision Ireland reviewed the 39 songs participating in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. If you’ve not watched our shows, you can click on the links below. We would like to thank our guest reviewers, amongst them Big Daddy Karsten […]
#BIRTHDAY: Maria Christian from Ireland is 56 today It’s often interesting how certain Eurovision stars crop up in the most interesting of places. Many just get three minutes on stage, and then it’s back to teaching, dentistry, or politics. Today’s birthday girl Maria Christian (aka Maria McCabe and […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part VII: The Rest of the West The Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam is getting ever closer. We at Eurovision Ireland are ready for it, and our coverage will continue whether you want it to or not. As a way to keep us occupied […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part V: Eastern Europe We’re getting closer to the contest in Rotterdam. Are you excited? We at Eurovision Ireland most definitely are. As a way to keep us occupied, we’re reviewing the 39 songs over seven panel reviews. This is our fifth review, which […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part II – The Nordics With the Rotterdam contest approaching, we at Eurovision Ireland are reviewing the songs in seven bite-sized chunks. In our first review we looked at the automatic finalists, and you can see our scores at the foot of this article. […]
#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part I – The Finalists The Rotterdam contest is fast approaching, so it’s only right that we at Eurovision Ireland review the 39 contenders. In this first of seven reviews, we look at the six songs already qualified for the Grand Final on Saturday […]
Shay Healy, the winning Songwriter behind “What’s Another Year” has passed away at the age of 78. RTE, the Irish national broadcaster, gave the following obituary: “From Sandymount in Dublin, he originally worked in RTÉ as a trainee cameraman, but soon found himself on the other side of […]