RTE have confirmed they will be participating at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This comes after the announcement of their Autumn 2018/Spring 2019 programming schedules. After a five year gap, Ryan O’Shaughnessy brought Ireland back to the Final with the song “Together”. Since 2016, Ireland have used the […]
The international music festival Cerbul de Aur (Golden Stag) celebrates this year 50 years since its debut in 1968. The festival – organized by the Romanian TV broadcaster TVR – is traditionaly held in Brasov, one of the most beautiful cities in Romania. Lots of international artists have taken the […]
This week as a one off, #WinnersWednesday is on a Sunday – after many winners have been crowned in various sporting events this weekend. This week, we continue to look back at past winners from the Eurovision Song Contest. This week, we will be casting our eyes over […]
The 2017 UK representative at Eurovision Song Contest, Lucie Jones is coming to Ireland! Charismatic and talented Lucie Jones – who finished 15th at Eurovision 2017 with 111 points – will be playing the role of Elle Woods in the musical “Legally Blonde”. If you like musicals and […]
1994: Ireland In 1994, the 39th Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Point Depot, Dublin. Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan took part for Ireland, becoming their sixth entry to win for their country. Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan finished with a 60 point margin over their nearest […]
Earlier, the news broke that Dustin The Turkey wants to participate again at the Eurovision Song Contest – but this time for the United Kingdom. While we have a sneaking suspicion what the answer will be, please vote below: Author: Richard Taylor Source: Eurovision Ireland
After representing his own country ten year’s ago in Belgrade, Serbia, Dustin The Turkey has announced some news that’ll make some UK Eurovision Song Contest fans cause shivers down their backs. After not qualifying from the semi final back in 2008, Dustin now wants to take to the […]
Welcome to a new series of articles we will be running every Wednesday across the summer – #WinnersWednesday. Every week, we will look back at three winners from Eurovision Song Contest past. 1956: Switzerland In 1956, the 1st Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Teatro Kursaal, Lugano. […]
Just before the contest this year, it was revealed that a Eurovision Song Contest board game would soon be going on sale, giving fans across the globe the chance to live their dreams and win the contest for themselves! The game was available for pre-order and sold out […]
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 […]