No win for Tatu as Irish telepoll released

CLAIMS by Russian pop act, Tatu, that a cock-up in the Irish voting system denied them victory in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest have proved to be groundless.

The much-hyped, pseudo-lesbian duo blamed a decision by RTÉ to rely on the vote of a stand-by jury rather than the results of a national telephone poll for losing them valuable points.

Comments by Tatu prompted a Russian TV channel to lodge a complaint with the European Broadcasting Union after they were awarded no votes by the Irish jury. It later emerged that Ireland was the only one of 26 countries which had to switch its voting system during the competition.