This year’s Irish representative in the Eurovision Song Contest has put out a call for help.

Ryan Dolan from Strabane, Co Tyrone will sing Only love survives in Malmö and already has a video for his song. The current one includes primarily local people but for the international audience he wants to spread the net further and asks:

Do you have friends or family around Europe? Ryan Dolan is looking for you and your friends to appear in the new European version of their video. Simply record a 5 second video piece of your friends making the heart symbol & saying ‘BE LOVE’.

If you think that you can do this why not make a video and email it to [email protected] before Friday 19 April?

For the full information click here to go to Ryan’s Facebook page.

This is the current official video of the song.

This is a video of Ryan performing at the all Ireland final of the “Teenstar Singing Competition” 2013.

Ireland is taking part at the first semi-final, on 14 May.


I attended my first Eurovision Song Contest in 1995, and from 1996 presented daily live reports for radio stations from the event. Since then I have been providing material from everywhere the contest has been held. I also enjoy compiling most of the video materials for three UK ESC events each year. In 2010 I first provided material for esctoday.com.