OlympicIRL

Just back from voting. Voted for a mixture of left-leaning and Green Party candidates in the local and EU elections and voted in favour of the divorce amendment. Also, in Ireland, most candidates and parties and the general public are pro-European and in general the level of anti-EU sentiment is quite low here. I don’t expect turnout to be very strong this year. It’s been a very low-key election this time and Brexit fatigue has really set in so it’s harder to motivate people when it comes to politics at the moment.

Netherlands hosted last in 1980

For me, any time to highlight the persecution of the Palestinians is absolutely the right time. It’s a heartbreaking situation they face day after day, so good on Hatari I say.

For me the jury votes used to be more in line to my taste. But recently I find the jury votes becoming very eccentric. Netherlands getting zeros from many juries just seems a bit odd. It will never seem like there is the right balance though and that's just how things will always be.

Yet again Sweden getting ridiculous jury scores.

NETH-ER-LANDS!!!!!!!!

Come on Netherlands!!

"Europe stop voting now"..... errr, guess no one is going to vote in the EU elections next week then

The crowd didn't even see that interested by her presence

Ok, now to vote for the nation least likely to employ a celeb cameo act for the interval act next year....

Ok, I think I must have lost my mind somewhere during the proceedings tonight.....

I like this Madonna song though... just not so much tonight

OMG this is like Opening Ceremony of TISC Open 2015

@thiago_simoes I was soooo wrong about that 15 mins.... seems like an eternity would have been a more correct answer.

Nana-Banana......

They have the original background graphics from the 1979 performance

I love this song

They should have made Verka sing Euphoria or something

Haha, this is actually funny

This is a much better version of Fuego

I hope all you TISC fans remember, never points 9 or 11 at ESC

Hmm, with Poland and Lithuania both not in the final this year, the Irish televote could go to anyone. Hoping it's the Netherlands!

I kind of like Spain's entry

Too long is the correct answer Not sure, maybe 15 minutes after the final song? Might be wrong about that though.

Switzerland will do well I think because it's catchy. I don't like it much though.