'Everything should be on the table' for Ireland's Eurovision selection - head of delegation.
"I'm not going to lie, it's not an unusual thing to happen to us in the last number of years," he said."We live in hope we'll come back and we'll fight again another day"."One of the things that we probably don't do in RTÉ - and it's down to resourcing and financing - is that we don't have a selection process like other countries," he said.
"For instance Norway, Sweden, Finland have very successful shows that run over a number of weeks - six or eight weeks - and they would select an act over that period of time."Also it does help that the fans, the hardcore fans around Europe, get to know the act before they actually arrive in Liverpool or wherever it is.
"It's down to resources, it's down to money - we don't have a never-ending pot of money from which to make entertainment shows".Mr Kealy said running the selection process over several weeks could be an option. "It's all up for a debate I suppose, at the moment they've yet to announce who's the incoming presenter of"There maybe a new team coming in, so all of that stuff is up for discussion."I would be open to any method of selecting a song that will get us a decent result"."This isn't a science, it's an artistic endeavour and you're competing against up to nearly 40 other countries," he said.
"It is tough and it just depends on a lot of things coming together and there's a certain X Factor, I suppose, that you can't put your finger on."We've had a pretty bad streak in the last few years, but we're not alone in that.
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