Ryan O’Shaughnessy will represent Ireland at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with his song Together. The song has now been officially released together with the official music video clip.
You can see the video for Together below.
Source: ESC Covers; Eurovision.tv
After speculation of various different acts being linked it has now been confirmed that Ryan O’Shaughnessy will represent Ireland at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. His song is called Together and it will be a ballad.
Ryan is a songwriter and had much praise for his audition on Britain’s Got Talent in 2012. He performed his self penned song No Name.
Together will be released shortly but in the meantime check out Ryan’s official video of his song Supermodel.
Source: Eurovision.tv; ESC Covers
In Tbilisi at the Junior Eurovision song contest a great program book was handed out looking very much like those at ADULT Eurovision. Roy of ESC Covers had each of the 16 acts sign the book and for the next days we will post it. Today we can highlight the third one – it is Ireland who ended with 54 points – many journalists in Tbilisi thought she stood out from the rest and would do well.
Well it was supposed to be a secret until the recorded TG4 selection shows were all broadcast but it has been leaked via digital download outlets that the Irish entry at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be by Muireann McDonnell and her song Súile Glasa (Green Eyes). It is not possible to play the song yet but it is visible to see.
You can see Muireann perform her winning song below.
Source: ESC Covers; wiwibloggs
Zena Donnelly gave an outstanding performance in the blind audition round of The Voice Kids UK. She performed the Jessie J track Mama Knows Best. Almost immediately the singer and judge, Pixie Lott, turned around her chair as Zena amazed the audience with her outstanding vocal range and performance.
After the performance Zena chatted with the judges will-i-am, Danny Jones (from McFly) and Pixie Lott (who will be the mentor for Zena). They were amazed and proud to see Zena sing on the stage as a seven year old with the legendary singer, Whitney Houston, at a concert.
Zena is 14 years old and represented Ireland at the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta with Bríce Ar Bhríce (Brick by brick) and gave a memorable performance their also.
You can see Zena’s blind audition on The Voice Kids UK below.
Source: itv; ESC Covers
http://www.itv.com/thevoicekidsuk/singers/zena
Ireland’s best place finish in the last 10 years was in 2011, when Jedward sang “Lipstick”. They finished 8th.
Here are some updates and highlights in the Press Centre at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev on 6 May 2017.
We have Brendan Murray from Ireland with two young girls and sparkling glasses. There is Valentina and Jimmy from San Marino with composer Ralph Siegel. Also, there is Anja Nissen from Denmark
We now have the results from the 20th country – it is the little island of COMOROS. Quite an interesting vote. Again as the system we use for the voting pictures does not supply Comoros, we use some photo’s.
12 points – France
10 points – Malta
8 points – Cyprus
7 points – Greece
6 points – Croatia
5 points – Russia
4 points – Ireland
3 points – Belgium
2 points – Spain
1 point – San Marino
The running order of the Second Semi-Final of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest:
1. Serbia
2. Austria
3. Russia
4. FYR Macedonia
5. Malta
6. Romania
7. The Netherlands
8. Hungary
9. Denmark
10. Ireland
11. San Marino
12. Croatia
13. Norway
14. Switzerland
15. Belarus
16. Bulgaria
17. Lithuania
18. Estonia
19. Israel