Thursday 5 August, 2021
Footage of Måneskin singer Thomas Raggi went viral last night.
After a gap last year, the contest was held in front of a live crowd of 3,500 in Rotterdam.
The first Eurovision semi-final was held this evening in Rotterdam.
The government said it wants to allow a maximum of 3,500 people to attend a total of nine shows in the city of Rotterdam.
The EBU rejected both songs the country put forward.
The artist says her song has been misinterpreted and is about an abusive relationship between two lovers.
Last year’s contest was cancelled for the first time in its 65-year history.
The announcement was made this afternoon.
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.
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.
