Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

If 20 out of 100 Irish people are determined to vote for Israel and the other 80 spread their vote among 12 songs, Israel will do well.

However, it's just a minority vote channel exclusively behind one country. It means nothing.

If Palestine had a song I'd say 60 out of 100 Irish would vote for it.

Surprised at public vote for France, Switzerland, UK and Latvia. Israel hmmm…no comment.

It seem nobody is aware of the concept of "Pulling the Piss" ! Some people voted for Israel to cause commotion and the backlash about boycotts and the like.

Simiarly people voted for the Austrian song as it was a guy with a hi pitched operatic voice. Its not exactly a radio friendly song, nor can you throw shapes to it down da club.

Remember down thru the years all the novelty songs and crazy theatrics? The Eurovision is a laugh, not a deep political talkshow!

Much easier and more straight forward to look at the results of Semi Final 2!

Israel really did walk it but you don't win anything for winning semi finals! 😉

Did anyone on this actually ever vote? Even if you like some countries song would you be bothered to vote for it. Poland were always going to get a good audience vote as the Polish are all over Europe like Lithuania etc. The Irish are mainly in the UK and US. The only people really voting are people living abroad, for political reasons and for freak shows and LGBT acts. I don't know anyone whoever voted in it. Emmy was the best Irish entry in years, you can see from the youtube comments. It's descended into a farce.

you’re disgusting

Austria was a crap song, the Israeli one deserved to win it by a mile. The playing field was not level though. The Israeli singer was distracted by whistles from the audience (not heard on TV), protestors throwing paint etc.

She won the public vote but it should have been even bigger, but for the fact both the Belgian and Spanish broadcasters aired pro-Palestinian messages ahead of and during the Eurovision broadcasts. Spain’s RTVE flashed a screen that read in English and Spanish: “When human rights are at stake, silence is not an option. Peace and Justice for Palestine.”

A message from Belgium’s Flemish VRT broadcaster said it was interrupting the broadcast to protest Israel’s violation of human rights” as well as its destruction of “freedom of the press.”

The juries of those countries are obviously biased against Israel too.

JJ is gay and got a lot of that vote, last year was a pansexual,Loreen before that on the back of her good tune before and Ukraine with a total crap song because of the war before that. It's a clown show

Just watched the voting …. thank goodness Israel did not win …… they should not be in it to begin with ….. Was delighted Austria stole their thunder …… until Netanyahu is replaced by a moderate Israel should not be in it ….. simple as ….. Netanyahu does not deserve any more legitimacy ….. he has too much already …..

Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia ….. they are the names of countries past and present banned from it for war crimes ….. Netanyahu's Israel does worse than any of them yet still remains in it ….. and they say it's not political when one objects to them being in it ….. if it is not political then the other five countries should have been allowed in it too …..

This is so Boards 🤣.

Why are you making things up?

The EU public vote for Israel is probably a combination of empathy for the artist and the popularity of right wing racism these times.

And probably a lot of bots

I’m not watching it next year, the whole contest has been ruined by Israel and they shouldn’t be platformed on the international stage like this. There’s something very dodgy going on with the public vote, why were Norwegians told thank you for voting for Israel on Tuesday…didn’t happen with any other country. Switzerland getting 0 points along even with Spain? Really considering their diaspora? Not a chance. I don’t think Ireland should enter next year, Israel are manipulating and cheating,

Check the sponsor - Moroccan Oil, Israeli. Why are they the sponsors still? Is this why Israel are shown blatant favouritism? Why do we have to put up with fake cheers for them? No one else gets that. It’s time to boycott.