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Ireland: Third Eurosong act revealed
Ireland will select its representative for this year's Eurovision Song Contest during The Late Late Show on February 24th when a Eurosong special will be held. Five acts will compete for the right to represent 'The Emerald Isle' at Europe's favorite TV show. The winner will be determined through a combination of jury (3/4) and tele voting (1/4).
The name of the third act competing in Eurosong 2012 has been revealed today by The Irish Times. A duo consisting of Una Gibney and David Shannon and mentored by show business agent Julian Benson will try to win the Irish ticket to Baku. Benson is also credited for writing the duo's song in collaboration with the Irish composer Éanán Patterson.
This is how the line-up of the Irish national final is looking like so far :
- Jedward
- Donna McCaul
- Una Gibney & David Shannon
The five entries competing in this year's Eurosong will be presented during the Mooney show aired by RTE radio on February 9th.
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Where is everyone hearing it's not 50/50 this year? It was only changed last year because Lipstick was revealed too early and another mentor complained
I'm pleased that Una is taking part - I've loved three of her singles ! She's excellent live too.
Let face it! Jedward will go to Baku regardless of the song. Their fans will vote in force to send to Eurovision again.
Hoping that Jedward will make it even with under that voting system :)
I live in Dublin and i've never heard of them.
It was 66% jury and 33% televote last year and Jedward still won. :(
im not a big fan of jedward but i would say its bit silly to have a split of 75 /25, on the other hand its unfair to the others if its 50/50 cos jedward fans will vote for them even if the song is rubbish, so a better song could lose out just cos the performers are less well known i can understand sometimes the advantage of giving the jury a higher percentage cos that reduces the chances of joke songs winning like the stupid rodolpho from spain etc
75% Juries, 25% voters? How stupid is that?! - I wanna see Jedward representing Ireland again. Seeing this vote-system makes me really mad right now :(
Hmm!Now it's getting more interesting!Jury-75% and Televoting-25%.So,if a really decent entry appears,it may leave Jedward in Dublin.Fingers crossed!But,i'm not sure,juries won't go for them.Besides,last year they were 2nd with the juries.
Jury (3/4) and tele voting (1/4). Is this how they are hoping something other than Jedward will win? Less power to the televote and more to the juries? David & Una are musical people aren't they? I very much doubt they'll have a ballad strong enough to beat Jedward, even if there is less influence from the televote.
Never heard of them. I've given up on supporting Ireland this year tbh.
I agree with Will T..I can't really see the point in all that except if one of these acts provide a song that interesting that it can beat Jedward (highly unlikely imo)..A selection of songs for Jedward would be better imo..
They really should've just had a 3 or 4 good songs for Jedward to perform instead of trying to find other acts to go up against them...
who said its a ballad??
Will be a dull combination... can't see it being interesting at all but that has never stopped Ireland in the past. They sure like their ballads.
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