Wednesday 27 January, 2021
Roy was due to perform the ‘Story of My Life’ in The Netherlands this year, but the competition was cancelled.
Belgium were also among the European heavyweights to record Nations League opener wins.
Serie A returns in mid-June, while the Ligue 1 season was declared over in early April.
This would have been the 65th edition of the contest.
The first semi-final of the contest was due to take place in Rotterdam today.
Leslie Roy was set to represent Ireland in Rotterdam this May.
Lesley Roy will sing Story of My Life in Rotterdam in May.
RTÉ received dozens of emails in the days leading up to this year’s competition.
In related news, it means Ireland are no longer bottom of the Eurovision table.
A total of 284,700 people watched Saturday’s final.
It wasn’t to be for Irish Eurovision hopeful Sarah McTernan last Thursday.
Meanwhile Eurovision organisers released a statement after two of Madonna’s dancers wore Israeli and Palestine flags.
Eurovision fans are already blaming the Brexit factor for the UK’s dire showing.
We can’t all be winners…
Ireland’s hopeful Sarah McTernan failed to advance to the finals last night.
Sarah McTernan represented her country in this evening’s semi-final.
RTÉ received almost three times as many emails objecting to a boycott as emails calling for one between January and April.
Ireland will perform at the second semi-final this Thursday.
GCC passed a motion last night calling on RTÉ not to broadcast the contest.
Singer-songwriters, folk groups and a BDSM art collective are all vying for this year’s Eurovision gong.
You can show solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom against Israeli apartheid, occupation and war crimes by supporting the boycott, writes Zoe Lawlor.
They pretend that the Jewish people have no right to live in the places where they were born and where their history, religion and culture are deeply rooted, writes the Israeli ambassador to Ireland, Ophir Kariv.
This year’s competition is being held – controversially – in Tel Aviv, Israel.
There have been widespread calls for a boycott of this year’s event both in Ireland and abroad.
Sligo County Council has previously voted to fly the Palestinian flag from Council Officers for a month in 2017, as well as voting to support a bill to ban goods from Israeli settlements in 2018.
His comments come in the wake of renewed calls for RTÉ to sit out this year’s contest.
The protest follows this morning’s announcement that Sarah McTernan will represent Ireland at this year’s contest.
Sarah McTernan came third in The Voice of Ireland in 2015.
Anna Korsun won Ukraine’s national Eurovision finals on Saturday.
Campaigners have called for next year’s contest to be boycotted.
The more controversial choice of Jerusalem was rejected in favour of Tel Aviv.
Rarely a year went by in the late 1970s without Turkey or Greece sitting out the event.
The country in May won the right to host next year’s Eurovision when Israeli singer Netta Barzilai won the 2018 contest.
Martin said his party is considering a Bill tabled in the Seanad that aims to prohibit Ireland from trading with any companies originating in an occupied territory.
She was speaking as part of a group of Irish artists and public figures like Eurovision commentator Mike Murphy, music legend Christy Moore and Senator David Norris who launched the boycott campaign today in Dublin.
Sinn Féin has called on the national broadcaster and the Irish government to boycott Israel which won the song contest this year.
The stage invader was taken into police custody immediately after the incident.
The final had an average of 690,000 viewers on Saturday night.
The UK and Irish public are actually sound apparently.
