Good evening Europe, this is Dublin calling! The Emerald Isle, the country with 7 Eurovision victories will be selecting its Eurovision 2025 act and entry for Basel tonight!

RTE, the Irish national broadcaster is gearing up for Eurovision 2025 in full steam!

How to watch?

You can watch the 2024 Irish national final -Eurosong 2025- on the Late Late Show at 22:35 CET via the following channels:

• RTE 1
• RTE 1 webstream

About the show

A total of 6 acts will be battling for the golden ticket to Eurovision 2023 during tonight’s national final.  The Late Late Show is hosted by Patrick Kielty. The 2025 Irish Eurovision entry and act will be determined via a combined  national jury/ international jury/televoting deliberation.

Irish winning queens Niamh Kanvanagh (1993), Eiemar Quinn ( 1996) and Linda Martin (1992) will be performing Loreen’s Eurovision 2023 winning entry ‘ Tatoo’ during the evening.

Bambie Thug (Ireland 2024), Donal Skehan (former Eurosong 2008 contestant) , Laura Fox (RTE 2 FM), Arthur Gourounlian  (Daning with the Stars Judge) will be on the feedback panel of the show.

The competing acts

• Emmy- Laika Song
• Adgy- Run into the midnight
  
• NIYL-Growth
• Reylta -Fire
• Samantha Mumba- My Mumba
• Bobbi Arlo- Powerplay

Ireland in Eurovision

Ireland debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965 and has won the competition a record 7 times  (1970, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996).

The Emerald Isle holds many a record when it comes to our beloved contest: Ireland is the only country to have won the event 3 times in a row (1992, 1993, 1994), whilst Dublin retains the record of being the only city to have hosted the event twice in a row (1994, 1995).

In fact the 90’s were Ireland’s golden years in Eurovision, the country welcomed the Eurovision bandwagon 4 times in a span of 5 years (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997) with Dublin hosting the event thrice.

The Irish have competed 57 times in the competition.

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Source: RTE