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Apparently someone's been playing with Dustin's scrolling text display. I have a sneaky regard for this Irish thingy, you know. In spite of being ludicrous,...

The morning’s deliberations

After passing on the delights from the hotel menu of "boiled kneepad" and "strip of meat" I'm back and not going to be put...

Irish enter an actual Turkey for Eurovision

Phil: It is what it is ... and that's not necessarily a bad thing, I guess ... He does everything that you would expect...

A morning of various joy – an evening of much of...

Aww Bosnia. It's flippin' brill! He starts off in a washing basket, with four knitting brides behind. Then everyone just runs about a bit in...

Ireland – Ah go on, go on!

Phil: Mrs Doyle has changed her dress and any "artistic differences" with the crew have gone, and a daisy is now their background! Lovely,...

RTE serve up ‘Father Ted’ to Eurovision 2007

Nick: I'm feeling the love in spite of myself. This lot are dangerous. They may squash the molehill, but they'll never touch the mole They might...

1000 songs in

The 1000th song ever in the contest is probably going to qualify. The singer - in my very humble opinion - is a bit...

Stand by for action!

Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images We're blogging this quickly because d' Oirish fellah just finished his press conference and we don't want to...

And on to Ireland and Cyprus

Ireland are sort of... he looks alright, actually. Seems very confident and comfortable, the mix of the song is a bit beefier and meatier...

I ran out of the hall because …

... it's 4.25 on day one, and Ireland were rehearsing - that in itself was a terrifying experience, but to follow that, we have...