May 17th:
The rehearsal schedule is
here and we'll be
blogging here. Our
photostream is
updated regularly, videos are here
and for quick updates, follow the
Tweetfeed.
May 13th: The
Top 5 Prediction competition is now closed. Never week we will be
posting all the predictions.
May 12th: We
conclude our previews of this year's entries with
Spain and Germany.
May 11th: Today we look at
the entries from Italy and
Azerbaijan.
May 10th: We
now move on to the songs that go straight to the final in Baku,
starting with
United Kingdom and France.
May 10th:
Having looked at the songs in the second semi-final, it's time to
look at who is
most likely to qualify.
May 9th:
Ireland's Eurovision winners are
planning a national tour in October.
May 8th: We
finish our review of the songs in the second semi-final by looking
at
Bosnia & Herzegovina and
Lithuania.
May 7th: Our
review of the 2012 entries continues with
Norway.
May 6th:
Today's entries in the spotlight are from
Turkey &
Estonia.
May 5th:
Today, the road to Baku brings us to Georgia.
May 4th: The Eurovision
2012 CD is in Irish music stores today.
May 3rd: Today we look at
Sweden, the early bookmakers' favourite for victory
Baku.
May 2nd: Today we look at
the 2012 entry from Croatia.
May 1st: We
continue our look at the entries in the 2012 contest, with
Slovenia.
May 1st: Today
we complete our "Ones That Got Away" for 2012. You can find the
complete list
here.
April 30th:
Our countdown to Baku takes us to he entries from
Ukraine and
Bulgaria.
April 28th: Our review of
the 2012 Eurovision entries takes us to
Belarus and
Portugal.
April 27th: We're off to
Malta as we countdown to
Eurovision 2012.
April 26th: Today we look
at the 2012 entry from the
Netherlands.
April 25th: As we
countdown to Baku, we look at the song from
FYR Macedonia.
April 24th: We continue
our look at the entries in the 2012 contest, with
Serbia.
April 24th: The official
Eurovision 2012 CD is now
available to download.
April 23rd: Having looked
at the songs in the first semi-final over the past few weeks, it's time to look
at who is most likely to
qualify.
April 22nd: Find out who
impressed us at "Eurovision
In Concert" in Amsterdam.
April 20th: Today we
finish our review of the songs in the first semi-final
Ireland.
April 20th: Today our
countdown to Baku takes us to
Moldova.
April 19th: Our preview of
the songs competing in .Baku moves to
Austria.
April 18th: Our review of
this year's entries move on to
Hungary.
April 17th: It's time for
one of this year's favourites as we look at the entry from
Russia.
April 17th: Going to Baku?
Looking for less expensive accommodation?
Check this out.
April 17th: Fancy a
Eurovision night out in Dublin?
Summer Eurobash is happening on May 5th.
April 16th: It's the turn
of
Denmark as we review
the 2012 entries.
April 16th: NEWS The
presenters of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest are
Eldar Gasimov, Leyla Alyeva and Nargiz Berk-Petersen.
April 15th: Today we look
at the entries from San
Marino &
Cyprus.
April 15th: In case you
are interested, the fan polls we are using for our rating are on the
Eurovision Statistcs and
ESC Nation
websites.
April 14th: As we continue
the countdown to Baku we look at
Finland and
Israel.
April 13th: It's the turn
of
Belgium as we review
the 2012 entries.
April 12th: Today we
continue our look at the 2012 Eurovision entries and it's the turn of
Switzerland.
April 12th: Our third quiz
of the year tests your knowledge of the 2012 Eurovision host county.
How much do you know about Azerbaijan?
April 11th: Today we
continue our look at the 2012 Eurovision entries and it's the turn of
Albania and
Romania.
April 10th: It's time to look at two more of this year's entries as we focus
on Greece and
Latvia.
April 9th: It's time to start opening the pages on our 2012 microsite,
starting with pages dedicated to the entries from
Montenegro and
Iceland.
April 5th:
It's time to look at Eurovision 2012 from an
Irish perspective.
April 3rd:
The Irish Charts
section has been updated.
March 26th:
The ESCnation
website has now opened its
simular
for 2012.
March 24th:
With the Eurovision national final season over for another year, it's time to
take our quiz.
March 23rd:
We have completed
our review
of the 2012 Eurovision draw, by looking at the automatic finalists.
March 23rd:
All the official preview videos of this year's Eurovision entries are
now available.
March 21st: It's time to
reveal the winner and answers to
our Jedward competition.
March 20th: The draw for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest
has been completed. We will be reviewing the draw over the next three
evenings.
March 19th:
We've completed the update to the
Irish Entries
page.
March 18th:
Check out the latest updates on the national selections in the
2012 Eurovision Song Contest
section and the 2012
Eurovision Gallery has pictures of all Eurovision acts.
February 24th: Ireland's 2012 Eurovision entry is "Waterline" by Jedward.
Watch it
here. Here is how the voting
went. You can watch all the Eurosong performances
here.
February 6th:
This evening we mark the
passing of an Irish Eurovision legend, conductor Noel Kelehan, who passed away
today.
February 1st:
"All Kinds Of Everything" blogger Elaine Dove says forget
about the draw,
it's the song that is all important.
January 30th: We have reviewed last week's semi-final allocation draw and
you can see the winner and losers
here.
January 25th:
The theme for Eurovision 2012 is "Light
Your Fire" and we now know
which countries will be performing in each semi-final.
January 18th:
Take your first Eurovision Quiz of 2012.