BIRTHDAY: DJ BoBo from Switzerland is 51 today If you’re a fan of the history of our favourite TV show, you’ll first know that there were contests before 2000. You’ll also know who won when. Take 1956 for example, when the late great Ms Lys Assia won. She […]
Within the last couple of weeks, both Switzerland and Germany have chosen their choirs that will represent them in Gothenburg, next August. Switzerland Cake O’Phonie took victory in “Chorus” – a national selection process that saw twelve choirs take part. The choir is from Fribourg, with additional members […]
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 […]
We have seen all of this year’s participating countries rehearse once so far this year – but what about the countries thats have participated in the Contest previously? Switzerland Switzerland first took part at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, when it was held in Lillehammer, in 2004. They […]
Switzerland will be the second country making their debut at the second Eurovision Choir of the Year in Gothenburg next August. RTS, the French broadcaster from Switzerland will be participating. Chorus, a National Selection will be used to select their Choir. Six choirs will take part in two […]
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 […]
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