Frosty night in Helsinki

RESPONSIBILITY for Ireland’s Eurovision fiasco in Helsinki must lie with those who advised the composers of the lyrics.

Mon, 21 May, 2007 - 01:00

It has to be said that anybody who does not see the potential for disaster in a song that waxes lyrical about “archipelagic icicles” deserves to be banished to the farthest archipelago where such icicles may be found.

John Stafford

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