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RTÉ HAS CONFIRMED that Ireland will enter next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Basel in May.
Irish entertainers can now apply to be in with the chance of representing their country on the stage.
The Netherlands has not yet confirmed whether it will take part, after the Dutch act was kicked out this year and prohibited from performing in the final.
After the semi-final, it was revealed that police were investigating Joost Klein. The Netherlands’ Songfestival, which sends acts to Eurovision, had said it was “shocked” and deemed the decision to disqualify him to be “disproportionate”.
Most broadcasters have until 15 September 2024 to submit their application for participation, but the European Broadcasting Union has given the Netherlands an extension until 1 November after what the union described as “constructive dialogue”.
Ireland’s national final – where an act is chosen – is usually aired on The Late Late Show. RTÉ has not yet confirmed whether this will be the case again.
At the contest this year in Malmo, Ireland placed sixth – its best result since 2000.
RTÉ Eurovision Head of Delegation Michael Kealy says the contest is “an amazing opportunity for any Irish act to catapult themselves onto the world stage”.
Bambie Thug performed at Electric Picnic in August and is currently on a 30-date tour across Europe with sold out shows in Manchester, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Cologne, Helsinki, Dublin and Galway.
For acts looking to represent Ireland in 2025, the closing date for submissions is Monday, 18 November.
The 2025 host broadcaster SRG SSR and the European Broadcasting Union chose Basel as the location for the 69th edition of the contest, after Switzerland’s Nemo won this year.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it and I’m a die hard fan of the first film. I don’t understand why people can’t be left to enjoy things without being torn apart
@Isla Carabine: I’m looking forward to it…Paul Mescal is a fine bit if stuff….drool
@J B: I’m female and married….so you’re silly attempt at an insult fell flat.
@Clare Power: FFS. You serious?
@Clare Power: Well played! The knuckle draggers have been triggered ‘bigly’!
@J B: just Clare thanks….
@Gerry Lamont: Why…I think he’s fabulous…
@J B: This makes no sense. We all know what Tired Jim’s thoughts on this would be! If I’d included ‘woke’, ‘tears, ‘ cry harder’ with a general air of complete disgust that the world isn’t the same as it was in 1951, then maybe you’d be onto something!
@Clare Power: he’s a beautiful tank of a man
@Clare Power: You go girl! F3ck the begrudgers
@Clare Power:
Classy wife on here drooling over an actor who’s probably a bit too young for her! My condolences Mr Power
@Brian Barry: and you wouldn’t drool at some leggy blonde…give me a break…
@Clare Power:
Oh I’ve drooled many a time Clare over a leggy blonde but i don’t announce it to the world. Out of respect for your husband i suggest you keep your drooling to yourself like most normal people do.
@Brian Barry: no, I’ll do what I choose thanks…
@Brian Barry: Welcome to 2024 where most of us have accepted that marriage doesn’t turn people into automaton’s and shock horror women appreciate an aesthetically pleasing human too!
@SerotoninWars: you couldn’t make this stuff up honestly..
@Clare Power: If there’s one thing that social media and comment sections have given us, it’s an insight into how many people have let the modern world whoosh on by! Have these people actually spoken to any of the women in their lives?!
@SerotoninWars: I would say the women in their lives are probably not allowed an opinion.
@Clare Power: A truly awful image. Being expected to sublimate yourself to these Einstein’s. Eugh! Probably get called woke for mentioning anything to do with equality.
@Brian Barry: Clare is married not blind.
@Clare Power:
I choose a different variant of Woman.
@SerotoninWars:
Most of us as far as i can tell don’t disrespect our Partners /husbands /Wives by stating how they drool over the opposite Sex online. Leave that to the teenagers
@Clare Power:
Women in my life have class. Opinions too!!
@Brian Barry: Get over yourself. My hubby has a crush on an American actress… Does it affect our marriage? No, because we’re adults in an adult relationship….you need to teleport back to the 1950s.
@Clare Power: Maybe he just has more class than you by refraining from posting his drooling preferences about said American actress Online.! Not all women hold to your standards Clare.
@Brian Barry: How do you know he refrains from posting, and basically, at the end of the day what I post harms nobody certainly not my marriage I can assure you…maybe concentrate on your own postings.
@Brian Barry: Jesus Brian I pity your other half. It’s ok to say someone is attractive.. you’re not looking to cheat or deceive anyone. Maybe it was a religious upbringing that did a number on you. Try being fun instead
Don’t waste your time & money going to watch this. It’s up there as one of the worst films ever.
@David Glynn: Well, reviews say di
fferent. Maybe it’s not your cup of tea. Others may have a different experience.
@David Glynn: mightn’t go that far David but 100% agree it’s a binner, the CGI is good but the story & script……very ‘m’eh’
@Annette: it’s a terrible film Annette. Went with 8 male friends, none of us were impressed. This genre is usually my cup of tea.
@N J: quite simply, it most DEFINITELY isn’t a good movie worth the ticket price. There are certain movies that are just”stand alone” masterpieces ( like Thelma & Louise, the Shawshank Redemption for example) that won’t benefit from ’round 2′…..this very much fits into this category
@N J: Well, based on your hcomments, it seems like my “Mysoginist Saturday Night Mansplained Gladiator 2” will be spoiled.
@Annette: morning Annette, I just had a quick perusal of available reviews…… all in all, fairly lacklustre & tepid
@Frank/Kevvy: Thanks for your invaluable review of the reviews.
It’s not great and his bland accent was terrible. It won’t be winning any Oscar’s that’s for sure
@Brendan O’Brien: cheers brenny, I really enjoyed your autobiography though —- “SPLIT”!!!
@Brendan O’Brien: have you seen it? Have you a problem giving their opinion on the movie? Baby!
@damien leen: his point is that it is the same person using 2 different accounts that is commenting
@Kevin Kerr: oh right, id say that brenny has more accounts on her then a south American drug cartel has in a bank in Cayman Islands,lol
@Kevvy kerrr: Yes, you would say that, but it would be a lie. Unlike you, I have only one account.
@David Glynn: you review for the Moscow Times?
@J Ven: So a man having an opinion about a movie is now labelled misogynistic and mansplaining. Thanks, got it.
@David Glynn: Obviously played second fiddle to Mescal when you were in school….
Is Paul not disturbed by the axing of Palestinian Egyptian actor Maya Calamawy from the he film? Hollywood is fairly obviously on the side of genocide. When does that realisation dawn in the minds of actors?
@helen mary fitzsimons: Slaughter begets slaughter. Whoever starts the slaughter needs to be held responsible.
@thomas molloy: so you’re saying this started on October 7th? And that 1 Isreali life is worth 100 Arab lives?
@thomas molloy: So the Israelis, agree totally.
@thomas molloy: then we have to go back to the beginning of time… However for this, perhaps look at the history of the middle east..
@helen mary fitzsimons: Did you forget this is Ireland and not Palestine? If you want to be a hero be our guest and go there. But this is a Hollywood movie and he’s an Irish actress. We aren’t Palestinian. Talk the talk but you don’t walk the walk on your high horse hah! We have OUR OWN PROBLEMS. Ireland First.
Both the movie and Mescal are crap. Don’t know why there is such a fuss over Mescal. Limited acting range, annoying personality and zero charisma. Too ‘woke’ also.
@Andrew Kenny: Don’t forget to add that he is Irish. Can’t be having Irish success. Better not get you started on Saoirse Ronan.
@Sal Paradise: Better not Sal. Lol.
@Andrew Kenny: can you explain how or why you think he is too ‘woke’?
@Dermot Blaine: He doesn’t turn up with pitchforks outside refugee centres? He said something that might be interpreted as ‘kind’ at some point?! It could be anything with the all-encompassing, rarely explained big W! It’s almost as if it’s a really lazy term for people who have been manipulated into thinking any display of thought or consideration is ‘weak’. Machismo and false nostalgia for simpler times, repackaged. Again.
@Andrew Kenny: is it because you’re a man…Paul Mescal is gorgeous…
@Sal Paradise: nothing to do with him being Irish. It’s about raw talent -both he and Keoghan haven’t it. Bluffers
Killian Scott ,Emmet Scanlan and Robert Sheehan have .
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: and gladiators? Who gives a toss about feckin gladiators (other than people who have been so distracted that this now appeals to them) small things showing the way
@Clare Power: Wrong. Colin Farrell, Domhnall Gleeson, Cillian Murphy etc. All fine male actors so no it’s not because he’s a man!
@Andrew Kenny: or that I’m a man even.
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: Cillian Murphy has it in droves
@Andrew Kenny: they’ve all got many years under their belts..give him a chance
The Royal Family were kind of trailblazing in a way. The original Big Brother House packed with influencers and endless gossipy scandal. It’s such an odd dynamic. The rags are absolutely obsessed with them. They rip them to pieces in one article, then act like the most hurt and outraged people in our galaxy if the proper genuflecting isn’t forthcoming. It will never stop being silly beyond belief.
I just don’t get this Gladiator 11 thing at all . Why would anyone be bothered with the life and doings of some guy who’s supposed to have lived 2,000 years ago ?
@Jim Ryan: Yes: eleven is way too many.
@Jim Ryan: not bothered seeing 11 given I haven’t seen the last 9 gladiators!
@Jim Ryan: Because it might be interesting? The vast majority of people still follow a book written 1,700 years ago that tells a story of man who may or may not have lived 2,000 years ago and blindly allow that book to influence their whole lives. Now that’s inexplicable!
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: I agree. Lord of the Rings is essential reading when you’re young, but turning to Gandalf’s first letter to the Hobbits for spiritual guidance, is a bit much as an adult! The Sauronic Panic was fun though!
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: Very true statement.
@John K: OK , Gladiator 2 then .
@Jim Ryan: to answer your original question they are interested in 2000 year old events for entertainment. “Are you not entertained!?” Similar to people being interested in films about fictional people/events.
@John K: should read Gladiator II
@Nerb: don’t have time to watch the movie let alone read the book. Especially since I haven’t read the 1st book.
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: inexplicable to you maybe. But that’s okay, I won’t judge you.
An average action film tbh.
I like Mescal even more , enough of this royal make believe stuff , they’re a family of messed up creeps.
Dire movie. Miscast ,familiar and nothing new. Rehashed from the original. If you haven’t seen the first one you will think this one is brilliant.
I’ll watch it, haven’t seen him in any other movie yet, he’s only 28 folks so give him a chance. My top 3 in no particular order is Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender and Andrew Scott.
Better idea than Sir Bob got Nothing admirable about kow towing to so called Royals who dont pay taxes.own large swathes of g b and even make money from their charity ” work” Work? Easiest work costing tax payers 100 of millions a year !!!
Can’t say it’s one of my priorities either, looking forward to
28 years later.
It’s an okay piece of ahistorical nonsense.
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