Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Oh well. No big shock we didn't qualify. I do think Brendan is a talented lad but he needs better songs.
Biggest surprise was Estonia, and I'm ok with that as I hated their song. Didn't foresee Croatia qualifying at all!
I feel bad for Macedonia, I thought they deserved a spot in the final.

PTH2009

ah we will show em all in the soccer what us irish are made off lol

freshpopcorn

Delighted for The Netherlands!

Welsh Megaman

Roll on Saturday!

My money's on Portugal

murpho999

Marty saying well done to Brendan for his efforts.

Bloody hell.

He sang 'Dying to Try' but 'Tried to die' was more what happened.

leahyl

Poor Brendan, he really was dying to try but couldn't quite get there....

Mahony0509

RTE need to seriously rethink how they pick their songs. Surely someone like Louis Walsh or any of the famous Irish bands would be happy to assist in picking a song.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bl32n6-JXc

Ally Dick

Marty is very good at the pretend upset

JP Liz V1

Why do Ireland even bother trying anymore, I think we could send Bono dueting with Saoirse Ronan on a dance track wearing just duct tape and wouldn't qualify

LizT

Maybe next year they'll cop on and send something a bit more catchy. The sound this year was just pure bland.

Richard Hillman

It was a song for a female and with the Jobs for the boys culture they got Louis Walsh and the act he thought might make him a few quid.

yerwanthere123

" Woah! Hugely surprised Ireland didn't make the cut!! "

- Not a single fúcking person, 2017

RobertKK

At the end Marty and co were dying to cry.

LizT

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Why do Ireland even bother trying anymore, I think we could send Bono dueting with Saoirse Ronan on a dance track wearing just duct tape and wouldn't qualify

No, our songs haven't deserved to qualify in recent years. They have been bad songs, it's nothing to do with bloc voting, we've just been sending pure sh1te.

Maybe we need to send Jedward again, at least they got through 2 years in a row.

Ursus Horribilis

At least the slagging Ireland's song got on Twitter gave me a chuckle. Even non-English language tweeters were shocked at how awful it was. It was a poor song made worse by a singer who sounded like he was inhaling helium from the balloon.

TGJD

Feel Lithuania were robbed but most of the songs that went through deserved it. Netherlands or norway could have an outside shout if italy and sweden don't meet expectations.

leahyl

LizT wrote: »

Maybe next year they'll cop on and send something a bit more catchy. The sound this year was just pure bland.

His voice was absolutely unbearable too....Jesus, they need to get rid of Louis Walsh and these kinds of people who think they know it all because they were Johnny Logan's manager for a few years in the 80's

BorneTobyWilde

A guy with a mic and a song hasn't won for years, but we persist.

Toto Wolfcastle

Ireland was just so bland. Bland music, band staging, bland performance. I actually don't even mind if we don't ever win again but I wish we could send a decent song at some stage. Jedward's first one was catchy and modern and did well. Brendan's was timid and forgettable.

wil

murpho999 wrote: »

This is a myth. Look at the list of winners over the last 10 years.

( I didn't put enough :rolleyes::rolleyes: sorry)

The ones with the halfway decent songs, yeah I know.
Sick of halfway decent songs being entered and actually getting through.
It's not in the spirit of Eurovision not to let us coast through with any old ****e. Shute didn't Ireland invent singing.:rolleyes:

Something something Riverdance

BorneTobyWilde

Send Johnny back.
He at least would qualify and go close to winning.

wil

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

Ireland was just so bland. Bland music, band staging, bland performance. I actually don't even mind if we don't ever win again but I wish we could send a decent song at some stage. Jedward's first one was catchy and modern and did well. Brendan's was timid and forgettable.

Brendan, was that his name?

yerwanthere123

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Why do Ireland even bother trying anymore, I think we could send Bono dueting with Saoirse Ronan on a dance track wearing just duct tape and wouldn't qualify

Did you actually listen to the song? Do you think it deserved to qualify? Do you genuinely believe Ireland were hard done by?

kopite386

Look we were never getting through with that ****e song - dying to try ..... To kill us with boredom
The song was just too boring, they need to send a catchy song next year not a ballad

Ally Dick

It's time to exhume The Swarbriggs and send them into action next year

The Parish Priest.

Sending Mickey Joe Harte again is the answer

dublinman1990

If you're into more Eurovision; ABBA at the BBC is on BBC Four now.

Strazdas

Back to the drawing board for RTE. Four non qualifications in a row and two failed internal selections is unacceptable.

I would reintroduce the national final and let the public vote on the songs : the internal selection is a complete waste of time and is achieving nothing.

Caoimhgh1n

They should just send me.

I'd win, I swear!





:pac:;)

Ben Gadot

I'm all for a bit of Louis Walsh bashing but the truth is two fold:

The production put into Irish entries has been abysmal for near 2 decades and

We can't compete with eastern Europe and Scandinavia actually taking the competition, you know......seriously.

I'd love to know who's bright idea it was to put that kid on the stage on his own under an air balloon and promptly throttle them.

10000maniacs

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Why do Ireland even bother trying anymore, I think we could send Bono dueting with Saoirse Ronan on a dance track wearing just duct tape and wouldn't qualify

To be honest our song was s**t. Last years Irish song was s**t. We are not going to get to the final with crap songs. Three ingredients will ensure we qualify next year. At least two were missing this year.

Strong song
Good singer.
Not a total dog looks wise

hawkwing

I wonder did Lulu fancy him and that's why he picked him to go

kopite386

10000maniacs wrote: »

Strong song
Good singer.
Not a total dog looks wise

And that strong song needs to be catchy

Dezekota

We may just give it up lads

Johnny Logan himself could sing our sing next year with west life as his backing singers and u2 on drums and guitars and we'd still not get out of the semi finals

Posy

Was Jedward the last time we actually qualified?

LizT

Dezekota wrote: »

We may just give it up lads

Johnny Logan himself could sing our sing next year with west life as his backing singers and u2 on drums and guitars and we'd still not get out of the semi finals

I just don't get it. Every time we don't get through it's like people think Europe have a vendetta against Ireland and waa waaa waaaaa bloc voting.

We. Are. Sending. Sh1te. That is the only reason we're not getting through. I would be very surprised if ANY country could have gotten through with our song tonight.

Strazdas

Dezekota wrote: »

We may just give it up lads

Johnny Logan himself could sing our sing next year with west life as his backing singers and u2 on drums and guitars and we'd still not get out of the semi finals

The Contest is not the problem, we are.

We're sending songs every year that are not even charting in Ireland, never mind anywhere else. Every entry is a bit lame.

freshpopcorn

Posy wrote: »

Was Jedward the last time we actually qualified?

Ryan Dolan!

snowflaker

murpho999 wrote: »

Even if that existed they would not be allowed in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VF06kEKGUk

10000maniacs

sonofenoch wrote: »

If you enter the eurovision song contest you're probably gay.....and if you watch it you're probably even more gay than that

Don't be calling Dustin gay now.

Strazdas

Posy wrote: »

Was Jedward the last time we actually qualified?

No, Ryan Dolan in 2013 (that was actually not a bad entry).

snowflaker

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Ryan Dolan!

And finished LAST!!!!

Strazdas

snowflaker wrote: »

And finished LAST!!!!

He was a bit unlucky though, they changed the voting rules that year and used a strange 'jury ranking' system.

Ally Dick

I was Trying To Die when I heard him singing

snowflaker

sonofenoch wrote: »

If you enter the eurovision song contest you're probably gay.....and if you watch it you're probably even more gay than that

snowflaker

Strazdas wrote: »

He was a bit unlucky though, they changed the voting rules that year and used a strange 'jury ranking' system.

the celtic dancers with the bodhrans...

snowflaker

Ally Dick wrote: »

It's time to exhume The Swarbriggs and send them into action next year

Plus two!

Tin Foil Hat

My kids made me watch this. Christ, it was awful. All of it. The songs were awful. The presenters were awful. We were particularly awful. Next year RTE will ask Louis Walsh to pick out another boy-band wannabe to sing another sh!t song and we'll still be awful.

CeilingFly

Ben Gadot wrote: »

I'm all for a bit of Louis Walsh bashing but the truth is two fold:

The production put into Irish entries has been abysmal for near 2 decades and

We can't compete with eastern Europe and Scandinavia actually taking the competition, you know......seriously.

I'd love to know who's bright idea it was to put that kid on the stage on his own under an air balloon and promptly throttle them.

Totally disagree the Scandinavia / eastern Europe comments. The winners and top three have been fairly well spread over the past few years. This year it seems to be between Italy and Portugal.

Bring back the national contest with no pre-performance or favouritism by various radio presenters. Have one condition - the song MUST have traditional Irish music at its roots.

But this sending of a bland pre-teen targeting ballad is just a joke.