- Eurosong 2008
Eurosong 2008 took place on
February 23 2008 at the National University Hall in Limerick, Ireland. It was Ireland's national selection process for the 2008Eurovision Song Contest , to be held betweenMay 20 andMay 24 inBelgrade ,Serbia . The presenter wasRay D'Arcy . After a disappointing last place result in the 2007 contest, RTÉ assembled a committee of music and media professionals, including 1992 Eurovision winner Linda Martin, to review the broadcaster's strategy for selecting an entry for the 2008 entry. The committee's suggestions prompted RTÉ to organize a new competition, to be entitled Eurosong 2008. While similar in structure to the National Song Contest which selected some of Ireland's Eurovision entries in the past, the new Eurosong 2008 also took "visual presentation" into consideration when selecting entries.Panel
There were three music related stars on the panel, who gave their opinions of each act after they performed.
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Louis Walsh , music manager and judge on theITV show The X Factor.
* Dana, Irish singer and Irish winner at theEurovision Song Contest 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything ".
*Marija Šerifović , winner of theEurovision Song Contest 2007 with "Molitva ". She also sang her winning song to close the show.Entries
Trivia
*Marc Roberts represented Ireland in the
Eurovision Song Contest 1997 , and came second.*Maja Slantinšek was one of the backing singers for Slovenia in 2006.
ee also
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Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
*Eurovision Song Contest 2008 External links
* [http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10620 ESCToday's report on the event] .
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