The original Derry girl: 50 years since Dana won the Eurovision

Dana weds her husband Damien surround by friends and family

It’s been 50 years since Dana won the Eurovision for Ireland. Pat Fitzpatrick caught up with her to ask about life as a singer, mother, politician and a very famous interview with Vincent Browne.

‘One way or another, I’m going to get ya’. Dana is singing a Blondie song to me over WhatsApp from Australia. She breaks into it during a story about a time in the 1970s when she was recording in Los Angeles, and the record company people asked her along to see a new band they were launching.