Mickey rates highly with Eurovision fans

IRELAND’S Mickey Harte is very much in the running for Eurovision gold, fans visiting the official contest website believe.

hey’re already voting ahead of Saturday night’s poll and have ranked him in joint fifth position at present, alongside Spain and Slovenia. He’s slipped slightly from third position on Friday but is well positioned on website rankings, ahead of other fancied entries from Germany, Britain and Portugal.

Traffic on the www.eirovizija.lv website has been phenomenal as eager fans mark the participating country entries out of 10. They can also download the lyrics to all songs, read up about the participating artists and how preparations are progressing in Riga, Latvia, ahead of Saturday night’s competition.