Weird and wonderful

THERE are guilty pleasures and then there is the Eurovision Song Contest.

What other event combines terrible music, kitsch costumery and awful dance routines to such irresistible effect?

It says something for Eurovison’s enduring naffness that, when the Irish Examiner sat down to compile its shortlist of weirdest entrants, Jedward didn’t come close. To crack this top ten, you’ll have to do better than troll hair and fake Californian accents.