Happy New Year! As it’s almost the first day of 2017 and we’re all thinking about the coming year, we here at Eurovision Ireland decided to kick off 2017 with our wish list of things we’d love to see at this year’s contest – now just 5 months […]
TVR (Romanian Broadcaster Television) announced today that the songs can be submitted from 20 December 2016 until 22 January 2017. Between 25 -27 January 2017: all the songs will be listened by the Jury For the first time ever all the songs will be recorded and presented on […]
Let’s face it, we all love Disney as much as we love Eurovision (if you disagree, you’re not fooling anyone!!) So what could be better than combining the two? Well, for Eurovision fans in Romania, they’ll be lucky enough to find out!! Romania’s own Eurovision princess Paula Seling […]
Last night, the Communication department, PR and Protocol from TVR released the following statement: “Romanian Television (TVR) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have reached an agreement to enable the broadcast by TVR of Eurovision Song Contest. (…) The problems between TVR and EBU started several years ago […]
Eurovision Ireland are on the ground here in Stockholm bringing you all the latest from the Globe Arena and today we caught up with the lovely Lidia from Moldova! Eurovision Ireland last caught up with Lidia at Romania’s Selecția Națională 2016 in Baia Mare. And since then, she’s […]
Well I was about to upload my video interview with 2016 Romania entrant Ovidiu Anton, when the news broke this morning from the EBU that Romania would not be able to compete in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, due to non-payment of debts by the Romanian broadcaster, Televiziunea […]
Now that the National Finals season is finished and all songs for Eurovision 2016 have been selected we now have a period of around 3 weeks where we wait for the rehearsals to begin in Stockholm. What better way to fill the time than to look back over […]
Continuing my delve into the staging & presentation of Eurovision songs and today we look at the Pyrotechnics. It’s something we’ve very much come to expect in Eurovision these days, not that every song needs flaming pianos (see. Austria 2015) guitars (see. Albania 2013) or record decks (see. Bulgaria 2005) but they […]
When Ovidiu Anton won the Romanian national selection final last Sunday, many were surprised by the margin of his victory. While he gave what was arguably the most memorable performance on the night in a field of unremarkable contenders, this everyman rock singer had made our previous attempts […]
Ovidiu Anton is celebrating having been selected to represent Romania at Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm. Congratulations, Ovidiu! But who is this enigmatic man with the huge voice? We took a look and sourced 10 quick facts about him, just for you. Who is he? Ovidiu Anton is a […]