It’s a bumper edition this week, with the luck of the Irish providing our Triple Play, and an equally lucky listener gaining a prize for choosing their fan favourite! Plus another special guest joins us with their new single and we round up this weeks contest news…
Show Timeline
Ireland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 55 times since making its debut at the 1965 contest in Naples, missing only two contests since then (1983 and 2002). The contest final is broadcast in Ireland on RTÉ One. Ireland has a record total of seven wins, and is the only country to have won three times consecutively. Ireland’s seven wins were achieved by Dana with “All Kinds of Everything” (1970), Johnny Logan with “What’s Another Year” (1980) and “Hold Me Now” (1987), Linda Martin with “Why Me” (1992), Niamh Kavanagh with “In Your Eyes” (1993), Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan with “Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids” (1994) and Eimear Quinn with “The Voice” (1996).
This Weeks Highlights


Željko Joksimović is a Serbian vocalist, composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He plays 12 different musical instruments including accordion, piano, guitar and drums. Joksimović is multi-lingual, being fluent in Greek, English, Russian, Polish and French as well as his native Serbian. He represented Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the song “Lane moje”, placing second. He also represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song “Nije ljubav stvar”, placing third.
Track List
1 | Je Ne Sais Quoi | Hera Bjork | 2010 Iceland |
2 | Ne Brini (Could It Be) | Mija Martina Barbaric | 2003 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
3 | All Kinds Of Everything | Dana | 1970 Ireland |
4 | Somewhere In Europe | Liam Reilly | 1990 Ireland |
5 | 22 | Sarah McTernan | 2019 Ireland |
6 | Fairytale | Eneda Tarifa | 2016 Albania |
7 | I Don’t Wanna Leave | Lidia Kopania | 2009 Poland |
8 | Scars Are Beautiful | Lidia Kopania | 2021 Non Contest |
9 | For A Thousand Years | Darja Svajger | 1999 Slovenia |
10 | Lane Moje | Zeljko Joksimovic & Ad Hoc Orchestra | 2004 Serbia |
11 | Without Your Love | Andre | 2006 Armenia |
12 | You And Me | Takasa | 2013 Switzerland |