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Ireland has not qualified since 2018. Liverpool will not be the place where we turn around our recent fortunes in the contest
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Irish band’s Eurovision semi-final group contained some of the most fancied contenders for this year’s crown in Liverpool
Not even the new voting arrangement was enough to land Wild Youth one of the top 10 slots, which were bagged by Croatia, Moldova, Switzerland, Finland, Czechia, Israel, Portugal, Sweden, Serbia, and Norway.
When singer Conor O’Donoghue of Wild Youth takes to the stage at the Eurovision Song Contest in next Tuesday’s semi-final, he’ll be remembering two special people he loved and lost.
Ireland’s Eurovision entrants Wild Youth described yesterday the “terrifying” pressure to win a place in the final after being tipped by Graham Norton to win.S