Why the shock horror & surprise that little old Ireland hasn’t made it through to the Eurovision Grand Prix yet again? Do we really need to get down & dirty about the real honest to God reasons why we didn’t? Let’s call a spade a spade, and agree that we were really crap & have been for Yonks!. One of the Norwegian Jurors quite aptly put it yesterday that “Ireland had lost it’s way in Eurovision.” he got replaced, but hey sing Hallelujah, wasn’t he right. Maybe if more were as honest as he was, we’d take note & come to the realisation that we need to go back to the drawing board and look at how we did it in the Eighties & Nineties when we were the King maker’s, or because it’s Eurovision Queen maker’s. We used a very simple formula ‘The National Song Contest’ to select our Eurovision entries, A songwriter, a song, a singer & a Jury, Hey Presto! Johnny Logan, Linda Martin, Niamh Kavanagh, Eimear Quinn & OMG the ultimate Irish Eurovision winner of all times Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan with Rock & Roll Kids. That’s how to do EUROVISIONNNN, no vested interests from the likes of gormless Louis Walsh who like Maureen Hughes when it comes to casting uses her own cronies for everything & gets bucket loads of money from RTE in return ( a whole other blog for a whole other day ) The other difference about our hey day in decades gone by was that our Best singers & song writer’s weren’t afraid, or ashamed to lend their talents to Ireland in Eurovision. That all changed with Your a Star, when we sent the Dregs of anything remotely related to music to Eurovision, Hmmmm Donna & Joe anyone, & of course not from the Your a Star camp, the Devil Puppet Dustin the Turkey. We may have lost our way & allowed Sweden to be what we were way back then, the Country to watch, but it’s not too late. we still have that enviable record under our Eurovision belt. 7 wins, 2nd place four times, once in 3rd, and three times in 4th & three times in 5th place. Let’s do this, I put it to RTE & The best Singers & Songwriters out there to get your fingers out, climb aboard our Eurovision Time Machine & travel back to the Glory days of Eurovision & prevent Sweden getting that 7th win, after all as they say “It’s not the taking part that counts...it’s the winning.
