Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Flying Fox wrote: »

The Italian singer tested negative.

https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/ebu-statement-on-alleged-drug-use-at-eurovision-song-contest-2021

Hopefully that knocks it on the head now. Such a stupid thing to overshadow their win.

Another successful social media outing for the righteous outragers!
For it to make the frontpages of the likes of the BBC's News website is an indictment of how journalism is beholden/follows utter shíte like Twitter and Facebook.


Anyhow, congrats to the winners, looking forward to next year and Ireland's redemption

archfi wrote: »

Another successful social media outing for the righteous outragers!
For it to make the frontpages of the likes of the BBC's News website is an indictment of how journalism is beholden/follows utter shíte like Twitter and Facebook.


Anyhow, congrats to the winners, looking forward to next year and Ireland's redemption

Absolutely disgraceful that instead of being able to celebrate and enjoy their win, he had to deal with that rubbish. What a way to tarnish what should be the most memorable time in their career and possibly one of the happiest days of his life.

Will the posters who were adamant he was doing drugs come on here and admit they got it wrong? One poster in particular seemed to make it their mission to convince us he was doing coke.

Hopefully they can use the extra publicity from this and go on to have an amazing career.

well in fairness he does look like the type who would partake

But he did partake... and won.

fryup wrote: »

well in fairness he does look like the type who would partake

Definitely.... Give it to someone like Zara King or Luke O'Neill.

hotmail.com wrote: »

RTE need to give Marty the sack. He's so unsuited to the event, it's not even funny.

DebDynamite wrote: »

Well luckily, not only is he not the type to do coke on camera in front of hundreds of millions of people, he’s not the type to do drugs, full stop. Luckily he could produce a negative test to prove everyone wrong and redeem his character. But sure no matter, the permanently outraged will just move on to the next person they try and get cancelled.

It would be great if there was a concerted effort amongst radio stations, etc to play the song in a fight back against this trial by twitter.

There was hardly any outrage.

No one cared. What Twitter comments were you looking at?

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Do you have some sort of hard-on against people saying negative things against cocaine?

You quoted me in the after hours thread too today. But arent you also the person who said (in After Hours):



Could it be that your own personal choice of recreational use is making you some what biased? :pac:

That’s what I said

DebDynamite wrote: »

Are you for real? It was all over social media!

People were laughing at it. I don't think many people cared.

It all comes down to..
we will never win again while the national song contest has been obliterated and hidden behind closed doors. it is just like Fire Saga- they dont want to have to host it or pay for it ever again.
you know the way like when you have someone over for dinner and they smash all your glasses and make faces behind your back and ride your dog round the house snort coke off your grannys handbag before you catch them by the scruff of the neck and say ' your taxi's outside- gwanawayb4iburstyayamalignantlilbollix!'
and wave them off saying...
Never again etc.

DebDynamite wrote: »

Are you for real? It was all over social media!

Master stroke by David, made news far beyond anything winning EV ever would have made, great publicity stunt, intended or otherwise.

A few people have mentioned getting established acts to represent Ireland. It might surprise some to learn that only the singer is performing live; instruments are all pre-recorded. If for no other reason, I think that would discourage the likes of Fontaine’s DC.

patscott27 wrote: »

Bring back the Castlebar International Song contest (Think San Remo but with ****e weather)

BBC4 had a (repeated) documentary called Eurovision at 60 on Friday night.
Dana was on it and mentioned that Irish winners were winners because they were just songs, songs that were not written for Eurovision, just plain old good songs.
She even pointed out that Shay Healy was not even a song writer, he was a broadcaster.

And she was dead right, trying to engineer songs that have a certain style to fit Eurovision is a fools errand.
Plenty of good songs have won Eurovision in recent years because they were first and foremost good songs.

So with that in mind bring back the Castlebar International Song Contest, tell the entries that they are writing songs for a small contest and then spring it on the best Irish song that they are going to represent in Europe also.

Flying Fox wrote: »

The Italian singer tested negative.

https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/ebu-statement-on-alleged-drug-use-at-eurovision-song-contest-2021

Hopefully that knocks it on the head now. Such a stupid thing to overshadow their win.

He was just miming doing a line in keeping with his band pretending to play their instruments to keep up the rock & roll persona

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

That’s what I said

Cool bro.