Best of the Bunch: Junior vs Senior – Ireland

Our Best of the Bunch series continues, but this time, we’re crossing over between the two main formats of Eurovision, the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The concept is simple, we take the Eurovision and Junior Eurovision entries of a certain year and put them up against each other in a…

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Ultimate Eurovision 2.0 – Part 2!

You may remember our original Best of the Bunch series, which aimed to find the best Eurovision entry from each nation from the years 2006 to 2015. From that series, we created the ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ which featured the winners of each of the poll, which you can read here. Over the past year, we aimed…

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Best of the Bunch: The Trials – Ireland

Through our Best of the Bunch series, we gave a recap on the Eurovision entries from 2006 to 2015 and gave you the opportunity to choose your Best of the Bunch. As you may remember, the current Best of the Bunch winners were put into our ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ but it’s time to see which of…

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Eurovision Union’s Weekly Playlist (38/52)

Each week, we’ve been creating specially curated playlists featuring some of our favourite songs from Eurovision and National final stars, new and old! In this week’s playlist we’ve featured some past songs from Eurovision performers we’ve been enjoying this week and we’ve also got some newer tracks from former national final artists! Listen to the…

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Brendan Murray to Fly the Irish Flag!

Irish Broadcaster RTE have announced the act that they have internally selected to represent Ireland at Eurovision 2017, and that is Brendan Murray! The announcement was made on Ireland’s The Late Late Show. Alongside the broadcaster, the man in charge of finding a suitable act for Eurovision was Louis Walsh, who believes that Brendan Murray…

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2016 Reviews – Ireland – Nicky Byrne – Sunlight

After a few failed attempts at the final, the Irish broadcaster decided to internally select Nicky Byrne (former Westlife member, just if you were wondering) with the song Sunlight. The song is an upbeat pop song, and very radio friendly, but will it succeed at Eurovision? Hmm. I think that this song is lucky to…

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Ireland has chosen: It’s Nicky Byrne with Sunlight

The Eurovision fanatics have done it again, they rumoured that Nicky Byrne would represent Ireland, and they were right! It was announced this week that the former Westlife singer would be representing the country in this years’ contest with the song Sunlight – which we didn’t have to wait long to hear! Nicky, as part…

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