What's Another Year?: The Late Late Show-Friday 4th February 2022

Hard to believe it's that time again, yet here we are!

"Ireland's six Eurovision hopefuls will take to the stage live on The Late Late Show Eurosong 2022 Special this Friday night, vying for the chance to represent the nation at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Italy next May.

For the first time in several years, viewers at home will have the opportunity to cast their vote for their favourite song and help to decide who will fly the Irish flag at Eurovision.

The winner of Friday night's Eurosong will then perform at the Eurovision Song Contest, in front of an audience of 180 million people around the world."

They've pooled these six songs from over three hundred entries, so they have to be good. Right? Right?

I have taken one for the team here and dug them out on YouTube (although RTE helpfully linked SoundCloud audio on their own article). Enjoy!

• One Night, One Kiss, One Promise. Performed by Patrick O'Sullivan, and apparently one Nicky Byrne had a hand in it. This lad has, on the face of it, had an interesting career.

• Ashes of Yesterday-Janet Grogan. A nice ditty around the trials and tribulations of cleaning out the fire of a morning. This performer made it on to the X Factor before, they say.

• Real Love-Brendan Murray. Ex boy band type.

• Yeah We're Gonna Get Out of It-Miles Graham. Not an encouragement to those who would resort to mind altering substances to escape THE PAAIINNN, although it may well have that effect, this song is a call to arms written in the middle of lockdown. Maybe Miles had heard Subsidy predicting the end of Covis yet again, that morning.

• I'm Loving Me-Rachel Goode. You go guuurrll.

• That's Rich-Brooke Scullion (yes, really). Made the final of The Voice (UK) in 2020. I resemble the title of this one every time I see himself grinning back at me.

Not sure about how this will go at all, at all-I think the first one will swing it due to the Byrne association, all the luvvies will be plugging it like mad. The rest to me seem to be trying too hard to be "contemporary".

Tubridy is probably being briefed on any misfortunes the performers may have experienced as we speak-gotta get that misery in!

To cheer the soul after all that, I'll leave you with a good news story arising out of last weeks nonsense.