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Ireland and the lipstick problem

Next Friday we will get another Eurovision entry to talk about when Ireland chooses the song they hope will bring back the glory days for them. Five entries in the run that you can listen a bit here (in the last five minutes of the snow actually) There has also been a minor scandal in the emerald island as Jedward's entry Lipstick was available to listen as a MP3 preview in Universal's website, and later of course on Youtube and most every blog and Eurovision website. However that was midly against the rules and the other competitors were asking to disqualify them but as they are the biggest act of the night that would have caused not so minor problems to RTÉ. So, in compromise the 50-50 televote-jury has been changed to 33-67. Will that have any impact we will see. Listening these snippets I think Jedward might be fun and "modern" but I have doubts it would do any good for Ireland but then again, what do I know? My favourite might be Nikki Kavanagh's Falling . ...

Ireland: Sisters, brothers, cousins.....

It seems a bit family affair in Ireland this year. Four out of the five acts in the national final are out and we have The Vard Ssters, the Jedward twins, Nikki Kavanagh, who is Ireland's last year's entrant Niamh Kavanagh's cousin and her backing singer in Oslo. Then we have also Don Mescall who apparently has no family ties with anyone involved it seems but he has written hits to everybody from Lulu to Backstreet Boys and Boyzone. The one missing act is unnamed foursome of two guys and two girls. I wouldn't be surprised if that's going to be a family affair, too...