Ireland: RTÉ prepares National Final for Eurovision 2024!
RTÉ has started its preparations to select their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. The public broadcaster has published the rules for their selection.
According to the first preparations, RTÉ will have a national final. It is still unclear however, if the televised final will use the “Late Late Show” format as it has been the rule for the most recent selections.
The deadline to submit a song for the Irish national final is Friday 29th of September 2023 at 6 pm local time (7pm CET). Artists and songwriters are invited to submit their songs on RTE‘s website. In any case, the Irish broadcaster is looking for artists who already have experience:
If you are an accomplished songwriter with a proven track record of success in the music industry, we would like you to submit an original song (…) Submissions should have a performer or performers already attached, performer(s) must have the ambition, vocal ability, stagecraft and confidence to compete at the highest level before a global audience of nearly 200 million people. Performer(s) must have intrinsic and obvious appeal to the core youth audiences who make up a significant amount of Eurovision viewers and fans.
A jury will evaluate the songs submitted and they will select the songs that will make a list of potential candidates. After this, RTÉ may invite some of the candidates to audition before making a final decision. We will inform about the future dates for the national final as we get more updates!
Wild Youth represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. Sadly, they did not qualify to the Grand Final. Ireland has not qualified to the Grand Final since 2018
Source: RTÉ
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