The Eurovision in Millstreet: Looking back 20 years on

Millstreet hosted the Eurovision 20 years ago, in an equestrian centre, for free. The town relished it, says Richard Fitzpatrick

TOMORROW is the 20th anniversary of Millstreet’s hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was an improbable coup for organiser, Noel C Duggan.

Duggan watched on television as Linda Martin won the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmo, Sweden, with the Johnny Logan song, ‘Why Me?’ “Why not Millstreet?” Duggan thought, and wrote a letter that night to RTÉ offering the use of his equestrian centre, which was unfinished, for free.