After a hectic evening at Scala, London, it's time to provide esctoday.com readers with the highlights of the party. We start with Ireland's Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy, one of the acts featured last night, whose leading vocalist gently shared her thoughts with esctoday.com.

Sinéad reveals, among several things, that having a team of composers and songwriters behind coming from many different countries could help Ireland to gather votes from a high number of nations, or how great is to see the island presenting an uptempo song to Eurovision. You can watch the interview with Sinéad Mulvey and Black daisy below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXrS-uEHV1Y

Enjoy the performance of the Irish representatives at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest at Scala last night, singing live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVBVWKcqoI

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