IRELAND 2017 - Brendan Murray - Dying To Try

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[Ringdalen]

Lets hope we get a comeback from Dustin the Turkey
Eurovision needs another song by him

[anto475]

Oh man I hope TG4 does excellently in the JESC in November, and then RTÉ pulls a national final out of the bag with real artists with real songs, not just Niamh Kavanagh's sister and some nobodies (although I did love Playing With Numbers), or even worse, the backing singer from Westlife. Then again there's no chance of this happening, so let me be the first to welcome you all to RTÉ's Studio 4, home of the Late Late Show!!!!!

[Sabrewulf238]

A part of me wouldn't mind not qualifying for the next six years. It seems to have done a world of good for The Netherlands overall.

Of course we could just skip all that and go straight to getting our act together next year...

[Jacketh]

You might as well go for Jedward again.

[Carrie]

What about Andrea Corr?

[ClassifiedCat]

I wish we could go for Celtic Woman or Markus Feehily, it would be amazing! <3

[Cyberbliss]

Ireland needs the "Wow" effect, a singer with personality. I can't remember any prominent figure in the last ten years apart from Jedward (which were original but far from successful) and please, bring something authentic, not another talentless big-smiled guy. It really hurts me

[Sabrewulf238]

I feel like we desperately need to start having more pride in our entries. The contest isn't the same kind of musical "farce" we've been treating it as over the past decade or so. It definitely seems like it's gotten more serious overall over the last couple of years. (I mean I don't think you could call any entry this year a joke entry) So from that perspective I don't think it's valid anymore to say that "serious" artists don't want to be seen alongside more silly entries.

I'd love if we had a really modern song selection process that was more involved with social media or maybe some kind of online streaming. I think our song selection process needs to really capture the attention of the Irish public and it needs to go beyond five songs appearing on the Late Late Show. It's super embarrassing that something we're being judged by the whole of Europe on (and outside even) is just tacked onto a chat show we have every week.

I wish we could send Imelda May or even though I'm not really a fan of his music, maybe Nathan Carter?

I'm also wondering how on earth we have Irish people writing qualifying songs for the Czech Republic when Ireland itself can't even qualify, we need all the help we can get song wise.

[BarefootBoogaloo]

I wish we could send Imelda May

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