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2017

The 62nd Eurovision Song Contest took place in Kiev in Ukraine.

In case you wonder why we use Kiev and not Kyiv, back in 2010, Reuters editor Robert Bessler responded to a reader’s query about the spelling.

“Kiev is not the Russian spelling. It is the commonly accepted English language spelling of the name,” he explained. “We are not writing in Ukrainian, we are writing in English, so we use commonly understood English names for cities – hence Munich rather than Muenchen, Cologne not Koeln, Rome not Roma, etc.”

Depends what Brendan is dying to try……

You know in a production meeting somewhere in the bowels of Donnybrook 4, sometime between Louis Walsh o'clock and today, someone said: "I'll tell...

Hungary – A Dal Results

It feels like we've been doing this forever. Or at least since Christmas, But the time has come for us to part ways. A...

Day Six begins with Armenia…. worryingly

It's a very good place to start. The start of the song has lots of camera cuts - indeed death by a thousand cuts, no...

Slovenia: beam me up, Omar

Omar from Slovenia is up now. I’ve already commented in my Countdown how I think he’s got an uphill struggle, and he’s not really...

Melodifestivalen – Semi Final 3 Results

More perfect pop and a few bum notes. It's Melodi-time in Sweden and once more two songs made the grand final. Two lucky pluckies...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown – Italy

Occidentali's Karma by Francesco Gabbani It’s the one with the monkey! Yay! And the one with all the hype. Does it live up to it?...

Bot or not – Who faked it at Eurovision 2017?

Anyone can gather Twitter followers. You don’t have to be famous. All you have to do is pay for them. We often judge a celebrity...

Love and Marriage, go together like a horse and …

... no, not another horse, more like the one-trick pony that this was always going to be - but one thing you can say...

Slovenia – EMA – First semi Final Results

Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO has kicked off its search for a song to represent the country in Kiev at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Once...

Martina Barta to sing for Czech Republic at Eurovision

"Upcoming jazz singer" Martina Barta is to represent the Czech Republic in Ukraine. The 'news' leaked after the band she's working with mentioned the...