It’s always one of our most read articles of the year! You loved it when we covered this in 2018, 2019, and 2021, so it’s time to crunch the numbers again for 2022! With the semi finals done for another year, it’s time to check in and see whose qualification […]
#ESC2022: The first qualifiers The first Semi-final of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest has finished, and we have our ten qualifiers for the Grand Final on Saturday 14 May. But who are they? Scroll down below for clips of the lucky songs. Do you agree with the ten […]
Tonight’s the night! The First Semi Final of the Eurovision Song Contest will be coming to us live from beautiful Turin, Italy at 21:00PM CET (make sure you check your local listings to find out where you can watch!) Although in a few hours we’ll know just who […]
As much as we love the Eurovision Song Contest, there is something in the old adage that some things just don’t translate very well. In a musical coming together of different countries and cultures, what sounds poetic and elegant in one language might not quite have the same […]
#ESC2022: Day trip to Lugano Eurovision Ireland loves its history. And what better was to indulge this by visiting the home of the first Eurovision Song Contest. So we took an excursion from Turin to Lugano to see what the Swiss lakeside town had to offer. And did […]
#ESC2022: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part V We at Eurovision Ireland have taken a look at the songs participating in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (plus one other). In seven reviews, we pick apart the songs, and see if we can find our favourite. You can find our earlier […]
#BIRTHDAY: Anna Rossinelli from Switzerland is 35 today Our continent is full of countries of all types. Monarchies, republics, and even principalities. But if you look hard enough, there’s a country that’s a confederation. How grand is that? A collection entities who stay together because they all get […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sue Schell from Switzerland is 72 today Many people have trodden the boards more than once, some with aplomb, and some doing stuff we’d rather not talk about. And I’m not possibly going to mention singers from the world’s oldest republic. But today we have a lady […]
Today ,Swiss Broadcaster SRF revealed the act and singer which will represent them on the Eurovision stage in Turin, Italy in May.Marius Bear will fly the Swiss flag with his song “Boys Do Cry”. Both song and singer were internally selected by means of an international jury of […]
SRG SSR, the Swiss national broadcaster, have announced that they will not return to the Eurovision Young Musicians this year. No further reasons were given. Switzerland last participated at the Contest in 2008. Switzerland did host the Contest twice, in 1984, when Geneva was the host city and […]
#BIRTHDAY: Sandra Simò from Switzerland is 53 today What to do with your life once you’ve been a Eurovision performer? Well, you could try again. But then you risk doing worse on your second attempt than your first. Or you go into songwriting. That means if things go […]
2017 Swiss Eurovision Song Contest semi-finalist, Timebelle, has released a cover of one of Måneskin’s Eurovision Song Contest follow-ups, but with a twist. You can listen to “I Wanna Be Your Slave” below: Let us know what you think about Italy and Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest […]
Well,Christmas Day has come and gone, Now that we are winding down towards the end of yet another year full of twists and turns, we at Eurovision Ireland felt this would be a good time to cast our minds back to May 2021 and have a look back […]
2015 Swiss Eurovision Song Contest finalists, Vanilla Ninja, have released a brand new single – “Waterfalls”. The official video for “Waterfalls” can be seen below: Let us know what you think about Estonia and Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest – either in the comments below or on […]
#BIRTHDAY: Paolo Meneguzzi from Switzerland is 45 today It’s always an interesting thing to watch when following the progress of fan favourites through the Eurovision season. The song gets picked and immediately there’s a buzz about it. Is the buzz just because it’s a fan favourite, or will […]