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Dustin the Turkey may be picked to represent the Irish Republic at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest which is to be held in Belgrade in the Spring:

Songwriters are spitting feathers at prospect of a Eurovision turkey - Times Online

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Brief edited extracts from the Times report on the link in the first posting to this thread: "After more than a decade of annual average growth of 7.2 per cent and the creation of more than 30,000 euro-millionaires in a population of four million, the glory days have come to an end and Dustin the Turkey seems to have captured the Zeitgeist. As Dustin told a newspaper: (Quote) There is a direct link between the recent downturn in the economy and our poor showing in the Eurovision (ESC) in the last number of years. In the 1997 presidential election thousands of voters spoilt their votes by entering “Dustin the Turkey” on their ballot papers, after which he established his own political party, Fianna Fowl (the two largest political parties in the Irish Republic are Fianna Fail and Fianna Gail) (End of quote)."

The Irish Republic has won the ESC seven times - four times in the 1990s. It once hosted the ESC three times in a row (1993-5). It has voted for the UK more than any other country (and vice versa).

Limey in Dublin wrote on the Times website (after the report on the link in the first posting to this thread) "We're never going to win again anyway now that the old Eastern bloc keep voting for each other. So I reckon we may as well send a memorable entry instead of the usual Bord Fáilte/clichéd tripe that we normally come up with."

TannyD

Scraping the bottom of the barrel, looks like the ideas have run out.

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steve fowler

Yuk the Eurovision Song Contest i would rather get beaten up down the pub then watch this ****.

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TannyD

So your not going to invite me along?
I guess I 'll be drinking my Creme de Menthe alone tonight...

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chikrodah

It surely can't be worse than last year's Irish entry.

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Aardvark

..but that's not the one they sung on the night.

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TannyD

Talkinf of Father Ted, what is your favourite episode? Mine is The Plague, the one with all the rabbits.

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John Connor

Yep, I'll go with that.

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