{"id":33283,"date":"2025-04-19T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33283\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:37:09","slug":"eurovision-star-from-northern-ireland-dies-aged-78-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33283\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision star from Northern Ireland dies aged 78 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Singer Clodagh Rodgers, who represented the UK in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/eurovision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> in 1971, has died at the age of 78.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Irish<\/a> star secured fourth place in the competition, held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dublin<\/a>, with the song Jack In The Box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">She was also a regular face on television, appearing in various TV shows in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Her son, Sam Sorbie, said in a post on Facebook that she had died after suffering a long-term illness and that life would \u201cnot be the same\u201d without her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">\u201cWith a heavy heart, my dear beautiful mum Clodagh has sadly passed away after battling an illness for the last three years. She passed away peacefully yesterday surrounded by her family in Cobham,\u201d Sorbie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">\u201cMum has lived an incredible life, full of love and happiness. Her fantastic career performing, travelling the world, devoting her life to her two sons and being the rock of this family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">\u201cLife will not be the same without mum, but she will finally be at peace now with dad, nanny and pappa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">\u201cWe all love and miss her terribly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Scoring 98 points at the Eurovision Song Contest, she lost out to Monaco, represented by Severine, also known as Josiane Grizeau, with the song Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">Rodgers spent more than a year in the charts from 1969 to 1971 with top five hits such as Goodnight Midnight and Come Back And Shake Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall\">She had two children; Matthew, with first husband John Morris, and Sam, with guitarist Ian Sorbie, to whom she was married for seven years until his death in 1995. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Clodagh Rodgers, who represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971, has died at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[19345,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-33283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-eurovision","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114365375821619750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}