UPD Ireland: Voting procedure modified by RTÉ

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According to allkindsofeverything.ie, RTÉ have changed the voting procedure of this year's Eurosong final as one of the five mentors asked for Jedward's diqualification because of their breach of the competition's rules. The winner of Eurosong 2011 will be selected by a combination of televoting (33%) and jury's choice (67%).

Yesterday, snippets of the five participating songs in this year's Irish national selection, were revealed by RTÉ during their broadcast of Eurosong – The Players, a special documentary presenting the five mentors and their attempt to find Ireland's next Eurovision winner.

As esctoday.com previously announced, Jedward,the biggest name in this year's Eurosong, might face disqualification as a 30 seconds snippet of their song Lipstick was published by theUniversal label on Amazon. This is against the official rules of Eurosong 2011 and one of the five mentors already asked for their disqualification from the competition.

In order to solve this situation, RTÉ have decided to change the voting procedure and unlike last year, the regional juries' choice will have a bigger impact on the outcome of the voting act (67%). People's opinion will count less and will have a 33% impact on the final result.

Ireland will select its Eurovision hopeful on February 11th, when five artists will fight for the honour of representing the Emerald Isle at Europe's favourite music competition. Don Mescall, Jedward, Nikki Kavanagh, Bling and the Vard Sisters are all part of this year's Eurosong line-up.

RTÉaired a special documentary on the Eurosong competing entries last night. It is now available to watch on demand here.

Update :RTÉ officially confirmed the news. The voting procedure of this year's Irish national selection will be modified as following : 67% jury's choice, 33% televoting.