IRELAND: Late Late Show news If you’re a history buff, you’ll know that the only person to sing two winning songs at the Eurovision Song Contest is Johnny Logan. And he’s on the Late Late Show on Friday 31 January. It’s 40 years since Johnny’s first victory, which […]
OBITUARY: Gay Byrne has died aged 85 Tributes have been pouring in after the death was announced of Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne. Whilst he is not someone you would automatically with Eurovision, he was nevertheless connected. Gabriel Mary ‘Gay’ Byrne may be best remembered as the host of […]
Ryan O’Shaughnessy will be appearing on tonight’s Late, Late Show on RTE1 from 21:35GMT/22:35CET. Ryan will be discussing his Eurovision entry, as well as the Russian scandal surrounding the official video of “Together”. Boy George has also commented on the Russian TV scandal on Twitter, as can be […]
IRELAND – We continue our series of video interviews with the artists in the Irish Eurovision National Final – Eurosong 2014. We like to call this “Facetime with Eurosong 2014″. We had the pleasure of meeting Patricia Roe and her Mentor Valerie Roe. Patricia will perform her self […]
“X-Factor Bridesmaid” Melanie McCabe – who was also supposed to compete at the Irish National Eurovision Final in 2013 was interviewed on The Late Late Show last Friday You can look at the interview here on the RTE i-player link here Melanie is the first guest on the […]
We wrote already this week how X-Factor’s loss could be Eurovision’s gain in 2014, when Melanie McCabe undeservedly (in our opinion) missed out on the Live Shows in the competition. Melanie will be appearing on RTE’s The Late Late Show tomorrow night. The show is broadcast on RTE1 […]
2013 has been the “Year Of The Gathering” here in Ireland where Irish culture has been celebrated in the country and through those who have emigrated over the years to the four corners of the globe. It has resulted in a resurgence in the Irish Diaspora and the […]
Irish Broadcaster RTE have just informed Eurovision Ireland of their new structure at the station. The Executive Producer of the Eurovision Song Contest of 1995 – John McHugh – is the new Head of TV Entertainment at the state Broadcaster. This becomes very interesting as John McHugh will be […]
€208,000 was spent by RTE on competing at Eurovision 2013 – according to the Irish Mirror Newspaper. So how does the newspaper claim the money was spent and why do they fail to mention the revenue that participation in the contest generates? Firstly RTE took 17 people as […]
“RTE are to blame for Ireland’s Eurovision Flop” according to 3 time Eurovision Winning Legend Johnny Logan. Speaking to the Irish newspaper The Herald – Logan said that “”I would tell Ryan to hold his head up because he pulled off a brilliant performance. He did us proud.” […]
Last night Ryan Dolan (Irish Eurovision Representative 2013) and Bonnie Tyler (Uk Eurovision Representative 2013) took to the stage in Dublin and London on the Late Late Show and The Graham Norton Show respectively. Ryan performed live on the Late Late Show in the customary “good luck for […]
The lovely Kasey will be performing 5th tonight on the Eurosong Final with the song “Kiss Me”. Kasey is certainly not scared standing out on her own following her time with girl band “Wonderland”. She certainly hopes to be flying the flag for Ireland at Eurovision this May. […]
Yes Aimee gets to grips with Ryan – no not Dolan – but Eurosong host for tonight Ryan Tubridy. Yesterday Aimee celebrated her 18th Birthday and poor Aimee fell foul to Ryan’s cheeky ways and got a lot more cake than she bargained for. But nothing is stopping […]
Ryan Dolan must be pinching himself now to have just received the below message of support from none other than Hollywood actress Thandie Newton. The star of hit movies “Crash, Mission Impossible II and The Pursuit of Happiness” has just sent Ryan and mentor Stuart O’Connor the below […]
(Photograph Courtesy of RTE) Today has seen the rehearsals for the Irish Eurosong Final that is taking place tomorrow evening on the Late Late Show on RTE 1. We have been very fortunate to get some wonderful pictures of the acts in rehearsals courtesy of Mr Paul G […]
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