Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Think Ireland should bring 'The Mary Whollopers' next year

The winning country has to host it. And as the national broadcaster, RTE would have to host it, and they don't believe they have enough money to do that.

Maybe if they stopped paying Joe Duffy half a million a year they might have a few more euros in the bank.

I can't remember which year it was, 1997 perhaps? the Eurovision was hosted in Millstreet in Cork. The arena there was basically built for Eurovision but has brought in huge amounts of money since then and helped the local comunity.

RTE Execs basically live in Dublin Central, so dont see major benefit to hosting another Eurovision, but there are towns and cities all over the country who would love the oppertunity.

The national broadcaster doesn't pay anymore. The big 5 pay.

The idea that RTÉ are simply choosing not to win the eurovision because they don't want to host it is like saying Longford Town are choosing not to win the Champions League because they don't want to pay for the air travel to games.

RTÉ have traditionally been the most eager to host. Every other country who won the eurovision twice in 2/3 years declined to host again, except us, who hosted it 3 times in a row.

It's a totally different contest to when we won it.

Countries can sing in any language - before you had to sing in one of your official languages, and English was an advantage for us.

Voting was opened up to the public - we seem to do better with juries.

Huge increase in countries participating means there's now semi finals for qualifying.

So I think you can draw a line under 'old' Eurovision and under the new setup we've not made a dent in it apart from Jedward (favourably) and Dustin (notoriously).

Lol but a knock off like Dancing With The Stars is ok even though the BBC (which everyone here can see anyway) do a much better version and even the BBCs z-listers are way more high profile than the nobody’s we get. That’s what annoys me realky. They spend money on second class versions of franchise shows and won’t put that cash into shows that could actually be better overall. If we consistently finished top 10 In the final fur a number of years it would be great exposure for artists and technical stage people at an international level.

Cork has an awful lack of hotels.

It would definitely be Dublin but I don't think hosting is anything we need to worry about any time soon.

Another reason is Ireland doesn't want to win again 🙄 it's ridiculous to be honest in the 90s we won 4 times between 91 and 96 almost sick of winning ,at least we will hold the 3 on the trot for a long time maybe forever , it's just a shame we where in semi final 1 this year as we where up against alot of great songs, we would have gotten through if it where semi final 2 but hey ho doesn't and won't stop me from watching it , at this stage I'm used to Ireland not being in it

So who’s watching it on the BBC and who’s is sticking with RTÉ?

IMO, this is what is wrong with modern ESC - vocals have to be masked now cos some performers at a *SONG contest can't sing or hold a note!

It'll soon turn into a total mimefest as performance is deemed the most important aspect.

*Yes, being able to sing is pretty important as is the songwriting as that's what the prize is apparently awarded for.

Crazy stuff at a fluff tv show, I know ;-)

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