PORTUGAL: Festival da Canção gives us four more finalists The people of Portugal have picked four more songs to compete in next weeks Grand Final of Festival da Canção in Portimão. They join the four picked a week ago. What are the four songs? Igual a ti by […]
PORTUGAL: Live blog of Festival da Canção semi-final two from 22.05 CET In Portugal, we’ll be a little closer knowing who’ll be brandishing the golden ticket. The second semi-final of Festival da Canção will see four songs out of eight progressing to next week’s grand Final in Portimão. […]
BIRTHDAY: Simone de Oliveira from Portugal is 81 today Did you go to Lisbon last year? Did you go there for the contest? Did you enjoy it? Were you there on that amazing night down in the Eurovision Village? I’ll elaborate. I was down there with some Riigi […]
BIRTHDAY: José Cid from Portugal is 77 today I mention from time to time that we love someone who tries. Even though they’ll never be the continent’s favourite. Often through no fault of their own. Actually, today’s birthday boy did really well for his native Portugal, and his […]
The rehearsals are over now and we are in the Dress Rehearsal stage of the week here in Minsk. I had the pleasure of sitting through the first Dress Rehearsal this afternoon and I’m now here to bring you the goings on during the Jury Rehearsal. You know […]
The first rehearsals are now over, so let the second rehearsals of the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest continue! Today see’s the remaining ten acts take to the stage again, but in reverse order – you know the drill, join me, Richard from 08:00CET by regularly refreshing the […]
Year after year, Eurovision Ireland gives you its views of songs heading to Eurovisions and Junior Eurovisions across the continent. But as it’s children who participate in Junior Eurovision and arguably the contest is aimed at a younger crowd, we thought who better to ask than its intended […]
It’s that time again! Let the rehearsals of the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest continue! Today see’s the second ten acts take to the stage for their first rehearsals – you know the drill, join me, Richard from 08:00CET by regularly refreshing the page for all the up-to-date […]
In this series of polls, Eurovision Ireland are going to look at countries that have won the Eurovision Song Contest and get you to vote for your favourites. Sounds simple? Well, yes, it is – the twist is, we’re grouping them according to how many times each country […]
#PORTUGAL: Maria Guinot has died Portuguese singer Maria Guinot has died after a short illness. She was famous in Eurovision circles for performing in the 1984 contest in Luxembourg with the song ‘Silêncio e Tanta Gente‘. It finished 11th with 38 points. Many think it should have done […]
It’s just under a month to go till the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018, live from the awesome Belarusian capital Minsk! Of course, Eurovision Ireland will be there to cover the contest and give you all the goings on at the Minsk Arena – but until then, why […]
One of the best things about Eurovision is that it moves every year – so not only does every contest give you another set of songs to enjoy, but it also gives you a brand new host city to explore and fall in love with! But just how […]
Over the summer months, we will cast back time in our interview vaults, in a series of Throwback Thursdays. We are not throwing back too far in our archives this week. Earlier this year at the London Eurovision Party, we caught up with Suzy from Portugal, who tried […]
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. […]
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 […]
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