Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

I've seen the video of the original Malta song. They should've been allowed to keep it that way for the laugh. I suppose the EBU didn't want another sh!tstorm

Emmy seems a nice enough girl who did her best with a dreadful song. We can talk about the staging, the dancers, the camera angles etc but really who wants to hear a song about a dead dog? While I’d have loved for us to go through, that song just could not have been more wrong for us, regardless of who sang it.

RTE needs to decide if they actually want to compete to win rather than just waste the money on futile attempts. Even the debacle that was the competition on TLLS is so old hat that you’d wonder why they bother.

What Israeli diaspora? There is no significant Israeli diaspora across Europe, and it certainly wouldn’t be large enough to account for the number of votes Israel receives. There are a few thousand Israelis living in Ireland, for example, yet Israel still finished second in the public vote last year.

Like it or not, most people are capable of seeing Eurovision for what it is: a song contest. They're voting for entries like Israel, Luxembourg, and San Marino because they enjoy the songs and performances — not because of voting blocs or politics.

I sincerely hope you and others like you follow through on your threat to boycott the final, so the rest of us can put the worries of the world aside for a few hours and enjoy Eurovision for what it truly is: a light-hearted celebration of music.

I've had my eye on it for a few days, and I think it's a little gem. I love the song and the performance. I voted for it last night in the semi-final, and I'm going to give it—and the Israeli song—another listen tomorrow night before I choose which one to vote for. The best performance on the night between the two will get my vote.

A song written by a Russian woman about a Russian dog sent into space on the Russian Sputnik and the dog’s prearranged death. Maybe not the best vote catcher in the current climate even if it happened years ago. The song was not well liked by my dog-loving friends either who said it was bubblegum pop sanitising the cruel treatment of animals.

I think that’s what RTE think they have with Marty: the lovable elder statesman who can be a bit cantankerous, but can take the mick out of the whole thing too in a humorous way.

Not fit to lace Wogan's boots. A poundshop version.

I'll give him this, he was memorable. Whether that means you deserve to qualify I don't know.

The EBU remove Russia's state broadcasters from membership of the EBU, as the felt that they had become an arm of the Russian state. EBU have so far failed to remove KAN's membership for the same reason as they believe that KAN is not an arm of the government.

Anyway so much for RTÉ's discussion on Israel, it gets them out of their own controversies and how they have approached Eurovision for the last 25 years, perhaps if they had called for those discussion after last years Eurovision I might be more sympathic to RTÉ.

I highly doubt 99.99% of the audience has a clue what the song is about or the history of Russian space travel to be honest

An unusual/interesting song with great staging can go a long way, compare it to this year and it's night and day

Am I the only one that doesn't mind Marty Whelan commentating 🙈

Aside from his relatives, probably

Its a song contest. That's it. Why not leave the politics out of it. I wouldn't have an issue with Russia having an entry. They're singers not the leaders of their countries 🙄

The hospital workers and journalists being specifically targeted by Isreal are not leaders of their country either 🙄

And it's Isreal whk picked politically motivated acts the last 2 years and also Isreal who couldn't "just let it be a song contest" last year when they bullied and stalked participants.

If anyone else acted like them last year backstage they would be gone. Just like Joost who happened to run into problems soon after speaking out against them.