Fans add voice to Mickey Joe's Eurovision bid

RUSSIA may be the bookmakers' favourite to win this year's Eurovision but fans here are already voting with their feet.

Fans add voice to Mickey Joe's Eurovision bid

Two specially chartered flights to Latvia for the May 23 contest are almost full. And eager punters are backing Mickey Joe Harte so heavily that bookmakers Paddy Power have cut his odds of winning the contest from 12/1 down to 8/1.

Donegal travel agent Driftaway Travel says there are just 10 seats left on its chartered flights out of Derry and Dublin to Riga. The five-star package for 272 revellers costs 1,150 and demand has been phenomenal, said travel agent Deirdre Grant.

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