The Swiss held it in Lausanne last time they hosted in 1989. Should be a grand oul’ battle between Zurich, Berne, Geneva and Basel to host it next year.
The Wankdorf Stadium would be a very appropriate venue for a Eurovision Song Contest.
I think “Celine Dion - Dublin” is the only winner-venue combination that contains the name of a Premier League footballer.
Before we sign off, let remember that the UK got the sum total of 0 from the 2000+ available from the public vote 
0/432 available to them.
The song and the act and the performance and was terrible and they deserved 0.
Why Me Malmo toiled away in the J League for years without ever getting that big money Premier League move
Savage marketing from Bambi thug to get him to hold her crown for his finale! Up their with CJ and stephen roche.
Diva Birmingham plays camogie for Offaly.
Nemo becomes the second Eurovision winner to have also won the All-Ireland Club Football Championship after France Gall (Luxembourg 1965).
First time in the era of jury/televoting that an act coming outside the top three on the televote has won.
So who won this shite?
Australia
Signing off now. Last point - it’s a travesty how few scores Finland got - 38pts in total to finish in 19th. This was a proper Eurovision number and deserved a top 10 finish.
Just when i thought they couldn’t sink any lower
You’ve misgengered here pal. You’re better than that.
I reckon you called this spot on. The TV juries had an agreed preordained winner to prevent Israel hijacking the public vote. They very nearly pulled it off.
Switzerland were the inaugural winners of the contest in 1956 and all three of their victories have come in leap years - 1956, 1988 and 2024.
The Swiss victory is a good omen for Galway who won All-Irelands in 1956 (football) and 1988 (hurling). Bayer Leverkusen won the UEFA Cup in 1988 and they’re back in the final this year.
The last two Swiss victors have had an undersea theme - Nemo is a character from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea while Celine Dion is famous as the singer of the theme music to Titanic.
We used to head up that N54/A3 deathtrap regular to the Clogher markets.
Fake Adidas, fireworks and ferrets…they had it all at the Clogher markets.
I did not accuse anyone of conspiracy, you’re making that up.
I did miss the trampling on the faces of victims, what’s that? Was there some sort of crush?
You’re claiming from the river to the sea is antisemitic?
If you feel qualified to comment on this in any way at all - and apparently you do - you must be aware of the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the major problems with it. You quoted from it a while back so it seems you’re aware of the definition. I doubt you’re unaware of the problems with it, so you’re being purposely obtuse. The problem with that definition is that a number of “examples of antisemitism” were appended to it some time after it was originally written. A number of these examples basically define criticism of Israel as antisemitism, a major success for Israel and its lobby. It’s the reason Ireland and any country with any sense have not officially endorsed the IHRA definition (Germany and the US have of course, you see the results). The guy who drafted the definition has disavowed the examples. It’s utterly discredited. There is a large movement behind an alternative definition with different examples for this reason, it carefully picks apart Israel/antisemitism and does a good job of it.
Israel will be banned from the 2025 event once an investigation into their vote rigging campaign takes place.
