Ireland
Eurovision debut: 1965
Total appearances to date: 56
Best finish: Seven-time winners - 1970 (Dana, 'All Kinds of Everything'), 1980 (Johnny Logan, 'What's Another Year'), 1987 (Johnny Logan, 'Hold Me Now'), 1992 (Linda Martin, 'Why Me'), 1993 (Niamh Kavanagh, 'In Your Eyes'), 1994 (Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan, 'Rock 'n' Roll Kids'), 1996 (Eimear Quinn, 'The Voice')
2023 performance: Failed to qualify for the grand final
Official broadcaster: RTÉ
2024 selection process: National selection, 'Eurosong 2024'
Artist: Bambie Thug
Song: 'Doomsday Blue'
Songwriter(s): Bambie Ray Robinson, Olivia Cassy Brooking, Sam Matlock, Tyler Ryder
Language: English
Sounds Like: Billie Eilish
Official music video
Lyrics
Avada Kadavra
I speak to destroy
The feelings I have I cannot avoid
Through twisted tongues
A hex deployed on you
That all the pretties in your bed
Escape your hands and make you sad
And all the things you wish you had you lose
I, I, I know you're living a lie
I, I, I see the scars in your eyes
I, I, I know you're living a lie
I, I, I guess you'd rather have a star than the moon
I guess I always overestimate you
Hoodoo all the things that you do
I'm down down in my Doomsday blue
(I, I, I know you're living a lie)
(I, I, I know you're living a lie)
Avada Kadavra
The thoughts in my head
The places I touch when lying in bed
The visions of you the words that you said
Undo
My heartbeat buried in the ground
And to the strings I bind you're bound
So when you sleep you'll hear my sound
(cuckoo)
I, I, I know you're living a lie
I, I, I see the scars in your eyes
I, I, I know you're living a lie
I, I, I guess you'd rather have a star than the moon
I guess I always overestimate you
Hoodoo all the things that you do
I'm down down in my Doomsday blue
I guess you'd rather have a star than the moon
I guess I always overestimate you
Hoodoo all the things that you do
I'm down down in my Doomsday blue
For your romance
I'd beg steal and borrow
It's draining me hollow
You-ooooh
You could slow dance me
Out of my sorrow
But your favourite colour
Compared to the others is doom
Doomsday blue
Blue
Blue
Blue
Blue
Blue
Blue
Avada Kadavra
I speak to destroy!
Performance schedule: Bambie Thug will perform fourth in the first semi-final on Tuesday, May 7
Bookmaker odds: 22/1
Neil Wilkes
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