Government announces Ireland have won Eurovision 2006

padraigmyers

Check this out
http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie/publications/release.asp?ID=1409

In case they fix it, here is what it says:

Press Release
20/05/2006
O'Donoghue congratulates Kennedy on record Eurovision win for Ireland

John O'Donoghue, T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism congratulated Brian Kennedy on his success in the Eurovision Song Contest with his own composition "Every Song Is A Cry For Love".

Minister O'Donoghue said: "I wish to extend my congratulations to Brian on his marvelous win for Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens tonight. He gave a wonderful performance and in the process extended Ireland's record number of Eurovision wins to eight. Everyone should be very proud of this excellent achievement."

kippy

Fairly big feck up all right....

Dave!

lol, what the hell? bit of miscommunication there I guess he wasn't tuned in!

padraigmyers

If anyones read 1984, I think tis may be the Irish version of double-speak.

cornbb

padraigmyers wrote:

http://www.arts-sport-tourism.gov.ie/publications/release.asp?ID=1409

Hehe, the press release has mysteriously disappeared. Gone to the Ministry of Love maybe? Doubleplusungood.

HelterSkelter

cornbb wrote:

Hehe, the press release has mysteriously disappeared. Gone to the Ministry of Love maybe? Doubleplusungood.

The proof...

ODS

Ah feck Moncrieff is just after reading it out on newstalk 106 fm.. thatll be that so... itll be gone ...
feck off newstalk fekkers and stop plaguerising other peoples stories Btw youll now have to admit to your boss that you spend your work time dossing by surfing boards.ie:D

ODS

HelterSkelter wrote:

The proof...

Nice one.. I saved it as well...

biko

That's mad. Dept of Arts etc are pretty sure of themselves

pclancy

LOL thats funny, well spotted OP!

Did anyone else think the entire show revolved around the stage show, girls and and lads dressed to the nines and general weirdness factor isntead of the music? Each and every song was pure muck (thought the metal lordi winner one was funny and a bit interesting tho) and all in all it was just glitzy eurotrash tripe? I hate chart music for the most part but why wouldnt they use a song thats popluar in a certain country instead of just writing some lovey-dovey ballad crap for one nights performance?

"We are the weeeeeeeners vooote for us" haha no your not, feck off back home.

Snickers Man

pclancy wrote:

LOL thats funny, well spotted OP!

Did anyone else think the entire show revolved around the stage show, girls and and lads dressed to the nines and general weirdness factor isntead of the music? Each and every song was pure muck.

Er, yeah. How long have you been watching Eurovision? It's been like that for decades.

Dirk Gently

Maybe he was referring to his qualification to the finals rather than the finals itself considering it was dated on Saturday.

scratch that, just read it again and clearly states it was for a win on saturday night. The pic is either a photoshop job or else a major fuc.k up. Kind of unusual to bring out a statement dated on saturday for an event which only finished very late saturday night.

Stench Blossoms

There was probably a few drafts of it and the wrong one was uploaded. Everyone makes mistakes.

drdre

that guys a muppet, we didnot win;)

Ruu_Old

Yay we won, we won! He was probably watching something else at the time.

BrokenArrows

He was probably handed a memo and misread it as 1 instead of 10.

Thirdfox

Think he was talking about a moral victory

Sparky

This was on liveline yesterday.

PlasseyMinstrel

He would have prepared that beforehand so that if Brian did win it could be released immediately and his name would get out in the public eye so all the proles can see who was first on the scene. I think they call it politics. The fact that it was published early is usually referred to as a ****up.

a major one at that... talk about counting chickens etc...lol