The Swiss National Final, Die Entscheidungsshow, that has been in use since 2011 has been cancelled. From 2019, an Internal Selection will be used to select the Swiss entry. A mixture of a public jury (100 members) and an international jury (20 members) will have the final say. […]
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 […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we look at what happened at the Eurovision Song Contest and Family of Events #OnThisDay. Today is 24th May 2018 and we look at the first ever Eurovision Song Contest. 24th May – 62 Years Ago Today On this day in 1956, the 1st […]
#AllAboard: Live blog of the Jury Semi-Final from 2100 CET Hello Europe and Australia! We’re back back back again with another LIVE blog for the second dress rehearsal of the first Semi-Final! This is the show that juries around Europe vote upon, so tonight’s performance counts Are you […]
Yesterday’s Blue Carpet Opening Ceremony for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 was indeed a grand affair, with the delegations of all 43 nations all dressed to impress for the world’s press and fans alike! Eurovison Ireland were there snapping away and we got some lovely shots of this […]
#SWITZERLAND: Interview with Zibbz at Eurovision 2018 Eurovision Ireland caught up with Zibbz from Switzerland. But not at the press centre or their hotel. We spoke to them outside the Oceanário de Lisboa on a beautiful sunny afternoon. We hear about Eurovision in the USA and who they […]
#ESC2018: Ireland at the Oceanarium Eurovision Ireland caught up with Ari Ólafsson from Iceland, Zibbz from Switzerland, and our very own Ryan at the Oceanário de Lisboa in the warm sunshine, for some fun and games. They jam some Eurovision favourites, run around, and Ryan even auditions some […]
Just when you’d thought you’d had your fix of Live Blogs from us this year during the National Final season, we are back for daily Live Blogs from Lisbon – home of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. You can follow the LIVE BLOG HERE – as always just […]
Eurovision rehearsals are great for many things. They give the artists and delegations a chance to see their ideas realised on stage and make edits to maximise their chances for victory, while for fans they’re crucial for forming opinions and those all important Top 10s! All the acts […]
Just when you’d thought you’d had your fix of Live Blogs from us this year during the National Final season, we are back for daily Live Blogs from Lisbon – home of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. You can follow the LIVE BLOG HERE – as always just […]
The sad news is coming through that Eurovision’s first Winner Lys Assia has died today at the age of 94 according to Swiss Broadcaster SRF. Assia shot to international fame when she won the first ever Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 with the now legendary song ‘Refrain’. She […]
Recently we wrote a Top 10 list detailing the first half of countries at the Eurovision Song Contest which have yet to score over 200 points. And now that the busy 2018 national selection season is over, we can bring you part 2! 21 countries have yet to […]
We now have all the songs for Eurovision 2018! Hooray!! But only 20 of them will advance from the semi-finals and join Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK in the grand final… boo!! But the question is… who will those lucky countries be? We all […]
Within just over a week, we’ve gone from having half of Eurovision 2018 entries released to having all but 5 of them (with 2 more due later today, Russia and Macedonia!) Has this avalanche of new entries changed anything in the betting odds? You bet it has! Here […]
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