Eurovision Song Contest

Hugh Linehan: Does RTÉ have the resources, the technical firepower or, most of all, the guests to make the new format work?

The 67-year-old singer, who released first album in eight years with his band Pil, says he has constantly struggled with stage fright through his life

Meeting on May 11th was to introduce new chair of RTÉ board Siún Ní Raghallaigh and incoming DG Kevin Bakhurst to Leo Varadkar

Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit

With Queen of the Universe in its second season, the chatshow host talks drag, television and flying the ‘freak flag’ in small-town Ireland

Singer becomes second person to win competition twice, equalling Johnny Logan’s record

Hugh Linehan: The contrast between events in Westminster Abbey and on Merseyside is stark

Patrick Freyne: This year’s trends are tethering your dancers, starting your song lying down, and no longer being maligned as silly and uncool

Irish boss of European Broadcasting Union said Zelenskiy could not address contest without ‘completely politicising the show’

Radio: The RTÉ host is perfectly suited to Eurovision coverage, even surviving the chaos of an interview with his old colleague Dustin the Turkey

Ireland has not qualified since 2018. Liverpool will not be the place where we turn around our recent fortunes in the contest

Where does Ireland go from here? Not to the Eurovision final, which, once again, will have to get by without Irish representation

Irish band’s Eurovision semi-final group contained some of the most fancied contenders for this year’s crown in Liverpool

Irish band’s song, We Are One, faces stiff competition from contest favourites for a place in Saturday’s final