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Eurosong 2008 was the national final format developed by RTÉ in order to select Ireland's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The competition was held on 23 February 2008 at the University Concert Hall in Limerick , hosted by Ray D'Arcy and broadcast on RTÉ One as well as online via the broadcaster's official website rte.ie .
Eleven Eurovision winners (alongside three non-winners) were featured at the special concert Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the contest's first fifty years. [85] Ireland and Sweden have won seven times, more than any other country. Ireland also won ...
Eurovision Song Contest: Belgrade 2008 was the official compilation album of the 2008 contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 12 May 2008.The album featured all 43 songs that entered in the 2008 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final ...
Ireland was represented by the Dublin indie rock band Wild Youth
Ireland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 57 times since making its debut at the 1965 contest in Naples, missing only two contests since, in 1983 and 2002.The current Irish participant broadcaster in the contest is Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ).
"Irelande Douze Pointe" [] (transl. Ireland Twelve Points) is a 2008 novelty song by Irish puppet act Dustin the Turkey, played by John Morrison.The song was chosen to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 after winning Eurosong 2008, Ireland's national final for that year's Eurovision Song Contest. [1]
2008: Dustin the Turkey "Irelande Douze Pointe" 5 [5] 2009: Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy "Et Cetera" 6 2010: Niamh Kavanagh "It's for You" 8 2011: Jedward "Lipstick" 1 [1] 2012: Jedward "Waterline" 5 2013: Ryan Dolan "Only Love Survives" 13 2014: Can-linn feat. Kasey Smith "Heartbeat" 39 2015: Molly Sterling "Playing with Numbers" 77 [2] 2016 ...
Eurosong 2009 was the national final format developed by RTÉ in order to select Ireland's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The competition was held on 20 February 2009 at the Studio 4 of RTÉ in Dublin, hosted by Pat Kenny and broadcast on RTÉ One as well as online via the broadcaster's official website rte.ie during a special edition of The Late Late Show.