#BIRTHDAY: Jónsi from Iceland is 44 today We move north after our little sojourn into the Balkan world. And to someone who has been on that stage. Once alone, and once with a pal. You see it’s true that some just can’t get enough of the heady Eurovision […]
Building on the success of our Best of the Big 5 series, Eurovision Ireland is broadening its search for your favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue. You asked us to take a look at the Scandinavian countries next, so our first […]
Last Saturday 20th February, Iceland chose the song that will represent their country at Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm. It was the spellbinding ‘Hear Them Calling’ by Greta Salome. This song could be a strong contender for taking first place with its up-tempo beat and singalong chorus. So who […]
The “Curse” of The OGAE Poll? Will it happen again this year at Eurovision? We are just over half way through the OGAE Eurovision 2015 Votes so our guest writer Barry Joyce takes a closer look at the results over the years. As we head into the final […]
Iceland (like Sweden) had introduced a gender quota of male and female songwriter equality in their Eurovision national selection for 2015. The new rule came under scrutiny from Icelandic 2008 representative Friðrik Ómar and others. It has now been announced that they rule of where 50% of shortlisted songs […]
Exclusive – Eurovision Ireland has been sent the first International broadcast of Iceland’s 2012 Eurovision singer Greta Salóme’s new song ‘Lifnar aftur við’ or ‘Coming Back To Life’. Greta has put down both her violin and Jonsi since Baku and has picked up a Guitarist – Gunnar Hilmarsson. The song is […]