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Ireland: Point Theatre to re-open under new name
The Point thus also served as the first place the dancing sensation Riverdance was performed, being in the interval act of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
Mobile phone company O2 today announced Ireland's first ever music venue naming rights deal, which will see the Dublin docklands venue renamed 'The O2.' The deal was done in conjunction with worldwide music promoter Live Nation.
The venue will open its doors this December and promises to stage 150 live events each year. The venue promises an amphitheatre design and "clear sightlines and proximity to the stage for everyone in the audience, due to its unique tiered seating design".
The Point closed its doors for the refurbishment early last year.
The phone company will also be offering ticket incentives to its customers, saying that they will have the chance to buy tickets 48 hours before they go on general release and can receive fast track entry to the venue.
The amount the company paid for the naming rights has not been disclosed.
(Article picture is an artists impression of what the new venue may look like)
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Dear Mina!
If it was the First ever ESC - would Greece held it at Lesbos??
Have no doubts!
Moscow 2009 !
See you soon!!!
Well, I know what I read but I guess you don't know anything about it.
lol
Mina
it seems you know more than i do!
Honey!
For ESC MOSCOW 2009!!!
The turkets don't count any longer1 ok!
To prove your superb ESC record just try and find something better that THIS!!!+
http://www.youtube.c(...)5rAUro5F664&NR=1
What I mean to say -
for the Isiah -
try and find better tham this
Mina!
i do hope will come with a surprise like that in 2009 - and hopefuly in Russian!!
God bless us all!
Is it sure it's Moscow 2009? I read in oikotimes that the governor of St Petesburg said in an interview that they're also bidding for the contest!
Paulina GAGARINA & Anastassiaya PRIKHODKO !!!
A brilliant duo!
This would have won any Eurovision by far!!
Paulina GAGARINA was the winner of STAR FACTORY-2 (STAR FACTORY is the Russian analogue of the international project POP IDOL) and Anastssiya Prikhodko the winner of STAR FACTORY-7 !!!
What a duo!
MOSCOW 2009!!!
WELCOME!
BURR,
who are the girls in that link? I like them.
Before sending something like irish turkey
watch out for this
Before sending something like irish turkey
watch out for this!!
http://www.youtube.c(...)5rAUro5F664&NR=1
Before sending something like irish turkey
watch out for thi!
What a great place it will be for breeding powl!!!
lol!
Ok, I will, but I'm the traditional type (remember I didn't like DJ take me away 
) so I'll probably hate it..lol
I'll let you know 
well, becuase i wanted t know for sure..are you on my side or not?? just joking..i think you will love believe in this club mix...look for it, maybe there is in a cd single or a remix cd single
Why am I confusing you? It's normal to agree on some songs and disagree on others
And I definitely agree that Israel has sent some of the best songs.
Mina...you confuse me a lot mow :-) we do agree agein a ba ni bi is one of my favourites winning songs...actually i think Israel has presented some of the best entries ever..a ba ni bi was great, hallelujia was nice, then 1982 "Hora"(2nd was very nice and it has a great choreography, 1985 "Ole Ole"(by the sme singe from a ba nibi, 5th place) was very entertaining, 1983 "Hi" (2nd place with only 6 pts behind the 1st) is a nice and a personal classic, 2005 shiri maimon's ballad and staging was great....this year israel was also god, 1998 Dana, super(but the hebrew version), and also 1988 was very good..i think israel together with Spain are my favourite countries in the ESC..to refresh your memory:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=ZHJyJF55P-8 -->1982
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=rdMdZrgBfo8 --->1983
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=lwzT5VLVjaY --->1988
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=feeKlNS_p3M ------>1976(also good)
and the very god isreal 1985, 5th place:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=ZDBOEOu2DWk
i liked some of the turkish entries very much: 2000(great song), 2004 For real(bombastically good), i liked 2006, Suprestar, but the english version and i found Deli this year ok..but my favourite turkish entry comes again from the 80's...a very underrated up tempo entry, which in my opinion had nothing less than the very good Aba-nibi, which had won a few years before..what do you think of this??
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=8NhtTy_ekv0
Vincent,
half native language half English is ok by me 
I like Hani but A ba ni bi for me was sooo great...hard to compare.
i am 100% for the country language rule or at least half this half english or whatever other language..i think this was one of the best elements of this contest, i.e. to get a feeling 4 ther languages..i was always fascinated since i was a kind by hebrew, serbian and spanish..and i was depressed with finnish, swedish and abve all..with German..
I think Turkey has sent a lot of good songs, no matter what language. I didn't like last year's entry though, nor "Superstar".
Belly dancing is very popular here so I thought I'd give it a try. It was great fun but very difficult. I gave it up.
Indeed, he seemed very happy when the UK gave Greece 12 points, maybe he wants to go back to Athens for another eurovision 
One word . . . . . . immigrants!!! I think "shake it up sekerim" did well because it was quite a modern sounding song, there are Turks all over europe, and it had belly dancers!!!!!!! Well the UK gave it 12 points anyway, but that was probably because Terry Wogan kept on pointing out that all of the Turkey dancers were British!!
I don't like the Turkish language at all..I still don't know why I liked Deli this much this year...very strange for me!
'' Terry Wogan kept on pointing out that all of the Turkey dancers were British!! '''
And this year he sounded like he liked our entry and indeed the Uk gave us 12 pts
The one I liked the least was last year's and I still can't understand how it scored higher than Deli!!!
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