We still have the hattrick. No one’s getting that.
My theory is to send something Irish owned, Irish language Irish music, just gorgeous à la Eimear Quinn in 96.. basically RTE GOOD LUCK, you quite clearly don’t want to fork out, and give and it to TG4
Get Enya or the Corrs out there!
Fuck it. Send Bono
We’re still world leaders in football, hurling, camogie and handball
RTE suck at picking entries and I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the vast majority of people picked are somehow related to people at RTE
I watched it last night for the first time in about 15 years. There’s definitely a formula. We need to find someone who is clearly bonkers, charismatic and has a set of pipes. Pair them up with a producer who can do a bit of synth pop power balladry. Dress them up in some outlandish fashion with matching choreography. Lyrics don’t matter as long as they’re sung with a bit of conviction.
A lot easier said than done but we need to really take some risks and not go for the safe bet or the Mickey Joe Hart brand of blandness. We love a bit of Rock and Roll Kids in Ireland but recently The Guardian ranked it at 62 out of 69 in their list of previous winners.
We probably wouldn’t get close to winning but we would clear the semis handy. Bonus points if we could outscore the UK on the Saturday.
We probably continue with the absolutely trash selection process that RTE have milked into oblivion with zero success.
Johnny Logan will need to go and get his top spot back as well.
Idk, maybe give a good entry
Fuck it lads get Dana back or the two time himself Johnny Logan back next year and take back the record. Put the money on the table RTE give them what they want
General election
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Jedward has been our best entry for years. Give it to them til end o’season.
Looking at the Irish jury votes, our vote wasn’t in sync with Eurovision preferences. So we might need people who actually love the current Eurovision to be involved, not those who are out of touch!
I think we’re stuck in about 1994 on this and letting it be decided by a special slot on the Late Late Show isn’t going to pick the kind of acts that have any hope of winning.
I suspect RTE is quite happy with the status quo.
Songs that win are catchy, europop type songs. Staging seems to be really important as well as memorable costumes. That’s what wins but that’s not anything near what we send
Send over Panti and her gang… We need more Gay upon our entrances
RTE really need to step up on the production value massively. The song we sent wasn’t that bad but the staging was so off the mark when you look at the other acts. Even the countries that aren’t as rich as us had way better visuals. I would love to see the thinking behind what we did which was essentially let’s use one gold light and put the singer in a suit that gives him a massive camel toe. Would agree with adding some kind of trad element into the song as well, if done in the right way it could really boost our chances of at least making the finals.
Side note did anyone think the UK one was shockingly shit? Just someone talking over music for a few minutes, and wasn’t even good when she was singing.
Send in the Twin again. For all the bollox they got thrown at them they did alright.
Realistically? Next year will be the same as this year. RTE are fundamentally not equipped to do well in the competition and haven’t been for about twenty years.
TG4 need to take it over for us to have any chance of improving, IMO,
If this isn’t the big kick up the arse for the powers that be here, then we deserve to lose our title for most wins. The decades of mediocrity while the contest moves on to other things is disappointing to watch.
Meh, Sweden 2024 was always going to happen.
Fifty years since Abba won with Waterloo, so the script was written
I was pissed Ireland gave Sweden so many points. She wasn’t even that memorable (especially compared to Euphoria). Did we not like our own records or something?
What’s worse is I don’t think we’re even capable of rallying and reclaiming the record at this stage.
So good job everyone who gave points to Sweden here, you played yourself.
Nex year we need to double up on the camel toe, giant projector screen like Cha Cha.
I defo think we need to stay in it. I think maybe a new approach will be better eithe more entrances to let the public vote. Like we need a rock band in it next of someone with a huge stage person. Our next Thin Lizzy needs to go in. The style we have been putting in is dated and I think it’s time to give a rock band a chance…..
Also what did our panel give Sweden such high votes the fools!!!! Finland were the real winners!!
We need a modern upbeat fun trad song sung in Irish with good production and as many trad instruments used as possible and I think that would give us a really good chance
Ireland shouldn’t go down the trad route anyways, Spain did it this year and fell flat on its face.
to be honest i wouldn’t mind not winning i’m just sick of stuff that shouldn’t even be picked going. send a nice irish language song that probably won’t win but won’t embarrass us and i’ll be happy
We need more melodrama, flashy lighting, wind, waley and loud vocals if Sweden are anything to go by.
It’s time to unleash the Logan/Turkey duet
Take the Eurovision away from RTE & award the franchise to Virgin for 5 years & let’s see what they can do?
Serious suggestion: we should set up an independent Eurovision group run by fans and music industry experts. Keep RTE out of the decisions and *for god’s sake* kick out the people who think they’re experts because they were involved in our success in the 90s.
Our current Eurovision crisis is a bit like Irish soccer under the FAI in recent years. There’s a bunch of suits at the top who only think about themselves, while the actual talent has little support. Need to clear out the boardroom, get new people involved, and have a LOT more transparency.
Tbh I just want the song next year to be sang in Irish.
I’m thinking Bodrháns, fiddle’s,druids and a thumping bass. Maybe some druids
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We still have the hattrick. No one’s getting that.
My theory is to send something Irish owned, Irish language Irish music, just gorgeous à la Eimear Quinn in 96.. basically RTE GOOD LUCK, you quite clearly don’t want to fork out, and give and it to TG4
Get Enya or the Corrs out there!
Fuck it. Send Bono
We’re still world leaders in football, hurling, camogie and handball
RTE suck at picking entries and I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the vast majority of people picked are somehow related to people at RTE
I watched it last night for the first time in about 15 years. There’s definitely a formula. We need to find someone who is clearly bonkers, charismatic and has a set of pipes. Pair them up with a producer who can do a bit of synth pop power balladry. Dress them up in some outlandish fashion with matching choreography. Lyrics don’t matter as long as they’re sung with a bit of conviction.
A lot easier said than done but we need to really take some risks and not go for the safe bet or the Mickey Joe Hart brand of blandness. We love a bit of Rock and Roll Kids in Ireland but recently The Guardian ranked it at 62 out of 69 in their list of previous winners.
We probably wouldn’t get close to winning but we would clear the semis handy. Bonus points if we could outscore the UK on the Saturday.
We probably continue with the absolutely trash selection process that RTE have milked into oblivion with zero success.
Johnny Logan will need to go and get his top spot back as well.
Idk, maybe give a good entry
Fuck it lads get Dana back or the two time himself Johnny Logan back next year and take back the record. Put the money on the table RTE give them what they want
General election
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Jedward has been our best entry for years. Give it to them til end o’season.
Looking at the Irish jury votes, our vote wasn’t in sync with Eurovision preferences. So we might need people who actually love the current Eurovision to be involved, not those who are out of touch!
Send Dustin again.
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I think we’re stuck in about 1994 on this and letting it be decided by a special slot on the Late Late Show isn’t going to pick the kind of acts that have any hope of winning.
I suspect RTE is quite happy with the status quo.
Songs that win are catchy, europop type songs. Staging seems to be really important as well as memorable costumes. That’s what wins but that’s not anything near what we send
Send over Panti and her gang… We need more Gay upon our entrances
RTE really need to step up on the production value massively. The song we sent wasn’t that bad but the staging was so off the mark when you look at the other acts. Even the countries that aren’t as rich as us had way better visuals. I would love to see the thinking behind what we did which was essentially let’s use one gold light and put the singer in a suit that gives him a massive camel toe. Would agree with adding some kind of trad element into the song as well, if done in the right way it could really boost our chances of at least making the finals.
Side note did anyone think the UK one was shockingly shit? Just someone talking over music for a few minutes, and wasn’t even good when she was singing.
Send in the Twin again. For all the bollox they got thrown at them they did alright.
Realistically? Next year will be the same as this year. RTE are fundamentally not equipped to do well in the competition and haven’t been for about twenty years.
TG4 need to take it over for us to have any chance of improving, IMO,
If this isn’t the big kick up the arse for the powers that be here, then we deserve to lose our title for most wins. The decades of mediocrity while the contest moves on to other things is disappointing to watch.
Meh, Sweden 2024 was always going to happen.
Fifty years since Abba won with Waterloo, so the script was written
I was pissed Ireland gave Sweden so many points. She wasn’t even that memorable (especially compared to Euphoria). Did we not like our own records or something?
What’s worse is I don’t think we’re even capable of rallying and reclaiming the record at this stage.
So good job everyone who gave points to Sweden here, you played yourself.
Nex year we need to double up on the camel toe, giant projector screen like Cha Cha.
I defo think we need to stay in it. I think maybe a new approach will be better eithe more entrances to let the public vote. Like we need a rock band in it next of someone with a huge stage person. Our next Thin Lizzy needs to go in. The style we have been putting in is dated and I think it’s time to give a rock band a chance…..
Also what did our panel give Sweden such high votes the fools!!!! Finland were the real winners!!
We need a modern upbeat fun trad song sung in Irish with good production and as many trad instruments used as possible and I think that would give us a really good chance
Ireland shouldn’t go down the trad route anyways, Spain did it this year and fell flat on its face.
to be honest i wouldn’t mind not winning i’m just sick of stuff that shouldn’t even be picked going. send a nice irish language song that probably won’t win but won’t embarrass us and i’ll be happy
We need more melodrama, flashy lighting, wind, waley and loud vocals if Sweden are anything to go by.
It’s time to unleash the Logan/Turkey duet
Take the Eurovision away from RTE & award the franchise to Virgin for 5 years & let’s see what they can do?
Serious suggestion: we should set up an independent Eurovision group run by fans and music industry experts. Keep RTE out of the decisions and *for god’s sake* kick out the people who think they’re experts because they were involved in our success in the 90s.
Our current Eurovision crisis is a bit like Irish soccer under the FAI in recent years. There’s a bunch of suits at the top who only think about themselves, while the actual talent has little support. Need to clear out the boardroom, get new people involved, and have a LOT more transparency.
Tbh I just want the song next year to be sang in Irish.
I’m thinking Bodrháns, fiddle’s,druids and a thumping bass. Maybe some druids