Linda Martin was the Irish winner in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992 with Why me and also the mentor of Jedward in 2012.

In the final of this year’s contest in Malmö, the Host, Petra Mede, made a comedic reference to Linda by suggesting that she was a drag queen.

Tonight in the last edition of the current series of RTÉ One’s The Saturday Night Show Linda is one of the guests and will talk about this and also perform a version of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky.

How to watch

The show is broadcast at 23:05 – 00:35 (CET), which is 22:05 – 23:35 (BST) locally,  can be viewed in Ireland, both north and south:

On the Digital Terrrestrial platform

On the Astra satellite (28.2E 10744 H 22000 5/6) via the UK Sky platform

It can also be viewed  using the rteplayer at this link.

After transmission this will be added to the rteplayer as a catch-up programme.


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.