Last night.
Lisbon, Portugal
Ryan O’Shaugnessy’s performance – including same sex smoochiness (top) – secured a Eurovision final place for Ireland – the first time in five years.
In fairness.
Nation shares pride at Eurovision qualification (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
THIS MAN NEARLY HAS A HEART ATTACK WHEN IRELAND GETS THROUGH TO THE EUROVISION FINAL! 😂🇮🇪😂 Video Credit: RTÉ’s Derek Mooney! pic.twitter.com/eIeVLKXXF3
— Colm Flynn (@ColmFlynn1) May 8, 2018
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zzzzzzzzz. dirge.
ah. i just wish some year we’d go for it with My Lovely Horse
really really think it would have a proper shot
I think the song is quite sweet and melodious. I don’t know if it will win because it doesn’t go for “Big Dumb Show” or scream novelty act like Israel, but quiet ballads have fared well recently. Good luck to him.
Actually it does go for the “big dumb show”- two guys doing modern dance in fake streetscape with snow falling. For a song about a break up! Non-native English speakers all didn’t seem to get the lyric and stage show disconnect.
sure aren’t the gays forever breaking up, getting it on again, breaking up, getting it on again, breaking up, getting it on again… you could hardly keep up with them.
That’s exactly why we couldn’t trust them with marriage.
Well, that and the baby factories.
You think that’s “big dumb show”? Oh dear.
It is a sweet song and our best entry in years. I thought last years song was the best song in years too. I remember sitting there on the sofa and exclaiming that I really liked it and was rounded upon. My wife thought it was a novelty song of sorts. I reminded her it was rooted in Portuguese Fado which we both really like. One of our favourite artists Melody Gardot did an album with a similar doubt. And worked with Sobral. He and his sister are serious musicians. Anyways. I was not surprised is won.
This year I feel it will be something the kids call a ‘banger’.
Last years song was great totally agree
But why is it the LGBT bullshit has to push the gay agenda
Pretty tacky and they go on about Israel
Contrary to LGBT many people are straight in Ireland and get sick of this in your face gay pride bull
Mind you imam old fashioned because its now pride and the gay in gay pride has dissappeared and now I’m banned
Yeh! lets have everything 100% hetro just like it was five years ago, before the gays starting pushing their gay agenda on everything
Christ almighty you really are one heck of a tiresome bigot.
Full of novelty….isn’t that what the gay dancers are for; fashionably guy is what got Ireland through to the next round of Eurovision.
Probably the biggest shock qualifier. Mad that anyone would think it has a chance on Saturday- it was a borderline qualifier helped by being at the very end of the running order (lets be real, do you think Albania and Lithuania will also be in with a chance?). Would not be surprise if it came in 10th even though they announce the qualifiers in random order.
another filler for the RTE schedule….
Now now, it’s only a couple of nights each year – whereas that rugby scutter seems to be never off the television…
People like it, let them to it.
People like rugby too; which is not on RTE anymore anyway.
Dreadful crap
as long as it stresses out the russian broadcaster i’m happy!
if RTE were allowed to fail…how much money per annum would be saved?
I’m thinking it’s in the region of €400m but I’m open to correction
Tv3 is all the evidence we need of the value of RTÉ.
because that the only alternative is it? TV3 is a commercial entity only and doesn’t extract a licence fee. RTE does both.
TG4 is what RTE should be, no more than that
TV3 does get a small cut of the licence fee.
TG4 is brilliant and if RTÉ could be more like them I’d be very happy.
If they get a cut at all it must be a minuscule cut of the licence fee, let’s face it. It does provide a news and current affairs service etc.
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The song seems to be very representative of contemporary Irish popular music.
Dreary ballads; each one unrecognisable from the next.
It’s outrageous that we have homeless kids starving in the streets and are wasting money on this abomination
As soon as GAA and soccer coverage is cancelled, talk to us.
It no lovely song about showering you with sugar lumps and riding over fences…..
a girl can dream
I really wouldn’t want to be a neighbour of that screaming queen, let’s hope he lives in the country eh?
Is that Fluffy? Also, will Fluffy be reviewing the competition again this year?
No
Fluffy was actually in the EuroQueens pit
He’s tipping France t’win btw
He’ll be there again tonight
Keep an eye out
That lad there is a pal of Derek Mooney’s