Eurovision: The divorce papers are on the table but Ireland shouldn't give up just yet

So why, if the contest is continuing to change and adapt, do we insist on staying the same?
Eurovision: The divorce papers are on the table but Ireland shouldn't give up just yet

Sweden's entrant Loreen after winning the Eurovision Song Contest at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Dressed head-to-toe in my finest communion regalia, a six-year-old me was found beaming around the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney after bumping into Linda Martin, Johnny Logan and other Irish Eurovision legends in the car park.

They were being ushered onto a bus and whisked off to Millstreet in Cork, where the 39th Eurovision Song Contest was taking place that evening.

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