The new Eurovision season is now on us and during the build up to National Final Season and the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, we at Eurovision Ireland felt it would be timely to continue with our Here Today, Gone Tomorrow series , where we look at past Eurovision […]
#BIRTHDAY: Cláudia Pascoal from Portugal is 30 today That thing where you represent your country, in your country. There’s no pressure at all, oh dear me no. Seriously, it must be an honour, knowing that you have huge home support in that crowd. In 2018 – if you […]
RTP, the Portuguese national broadcaster, have confirmed participation at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Switzerland. RTP have launched Festival da Canção 2025 to select their entry for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. Song submissions for the public is open until Tuesday 15th October. Fourteen entries will come […]
Today, the 2024 UEFA European Championships continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. Today is match day thirteen, with the thirty third, thirty fourth, thirty fifth and thirty sixth match of the Championships – Ukraine vs. Belgium is the thirty third match. But who […]
Today, the 2024 UEFA European Championships continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. Today is match day nine, with the twenty second, twenty third and twenty fourth match of the Championships – Georgia vs. Czechia is the twenty second match. But who will win? […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nucha from Portugal is 58 today What do you now? It’s Lusitanian singing that was largely ignored by the juries of Europe. I’ll admit that not everything Portugal did was good, but they deserved better some years. Back in 1990, Eurovision was a simpler affair. We knew […]
Today, the 2024 UEFA European Championships continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. Today is match day five, with the eleventh and twelfth match of the Championships – Turkey vs. Georgia is the eleventh match. But who will win? For the eleventh match, we […]
#BIRTHDAY: Célia Lawson from Portugal is 50 today If you ever get the gig to represent your country, you have to be prepared for failure as well as success. Only one country can win, so the chances are you won’t. So it’s a case of how well, relatively, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Paulo de Carvalho from Portugal is 77 today Every song – in it’s own way – makes its own piece of history. It could be a country’s début song. It could be their lowest ever scorer. Or it could make its mark for wider reasons. Fifty (yes, […]
One sleepy Sunday morning during the rehearsals for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, we were around the breakfast table and our minds started to wander… discussions eventually turned to Astrology and we hit on an interesting notion: which Zodiac sign has won Eurovision the most? One thing let […]