Here's everything you need to know ahead of The Late Late Show’s Eurosong special tonight
“I think the public have a right to be part of it,” says the broadcaster Marty Whelan, RTÉ’s long-time Eurovision commentator. “I think it’s wonderful that they have a say – not the full say, but a say. It’s very democratic. Everybody then has an opportunity to make it. I think, without that, it’s not the wonderful event I know it to be.”There are six acts competing for the chance to represent Ireland at Eurovision 2023.Leila Jane, WildPublic Image Ltd are the highest-profile act.
What was his wife’s reaction when he played her the song? “She understood it very, very deeply. Hawaii isn’t the only place of significance to us, but that was the one I picked out. It’s very, very tear-jerking for me to even talk about it ... I’m even shaking now thinking about it, because it means the world to me. These are the last few years of coherence together, and I miss her like mad.”
“We were just playing around in the canteen, banging the tables, freestyling, making diss tracks. And then in 2020 we decided to take it seriously. We dropped a song called Longford Town, and that gave us a platform to continue making music. Locally it was quite popular”.“It was an anthem really,” adds ND, aka 19-year-old Nevlonne Dampare. The song is “very close to our hearts” and about “persevering and believing in our dreams”.
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