RTP, the Portuguese national broadcaster, have revealed format changes for Festival da Canção 2026, as well as participation discussions ahead of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna. Festival da Canção 2026 will feature 16 songs across two semi finals. Each semi final will see 5 songs progress […]
#BIRTHDAY: Duarte Mendes from Portugal is 78 today Is Eurovision political? Is there a fine line between a political song and one that celebrates history? Where do you draw this line? Some countries have had more turbulent histories than others, and some very recently. Back in 1975, revolution […]
This year, the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest featured a record breaking twenty languages. Eurovision Ireland will be looking at all the languages that have been performed at the Contest, since 1956, in our latest #AtoZ. Today, we continue the series with Pontic Greek, Portuguese and Proto-Slavic. Pontic Greek […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tó Cruz from Portugal is 58 today As you know, our friends in Portugal achieved their victory after the longest ever non-winning streak to date. They had tried everything since their début in 1964. Amongst Portugal’s notable achievements was sending the first black male performer in 1967. […]
The EBU, the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC, the British national broadcaster, are co-producing a new set of concerts celebrating Europe’s great orchestras. Eurovision Classical Concerts is a new music co-production from BBC Arts and the EBU, marking the first new Eurovision classical music collaboration in over […]
It’s June and it’s Pride month. Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are going to highlight some of the LGBTQ+ artists to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. For June 10th, we are continuing with Salvador Sobral. He represented Portugal, with “Amar pelos dois”, taking 1st place with […]
Just before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, we asked the readers of Eurovision Ireland which country they thought should have won our beloved contest more than they have. The results are in – but hold on to your hats, it’s about to get more exciting […]
It’s June and it’s Pride month. Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are going to highlight some of the LGBTQ+ artists to have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. For June 8th, we are continuing with Iolanda. She represented Portugal with “Grito”, taking 10th place with 152 points. Iolanda […]
The semi finals are over for another year, so that means it’s time for one of the most popular annual articles Eurovision Ireland publishes – it’s time to find out which countries have had their qualification rates improved the most by reaching the Grand Final of the Eurovision […]
#ESC25: And the first ten qualifiers are… The first semi-final of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest has just finished. Fifteen countries went in, but only 10 have got the gold-ish tickets to proceed to the Grand Final on 17 May. But who are the lucky ten? In the […]
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