Join us on August 10th for our Summer EuroBash and Quiz.
Test your Eurovision knowledge with our now infamous quiz at 6pm! Team up with your friends or make new ones on the day!
From 9pm we will swap over to EuroClub legend DJ Konstantin to play all the hits and remixes all night till late! Got any requests, send them into us now!
Join us in Cork on September 14th for a unique Eurovision party. We go on a Boat Cruise on the River Lee for over 2 and a half hours and then continue the party on in Cork City afterwards.
Tickets are sold out for the Cruise but the after party is still happening.
We are very proud to announce that we are now over 1000 members. We could not be more proud of this wonderful community, to see such growth and joy come together. 2 years ago we were just over 200, and this is the just the beginning for the club and Ireland!
A message from the President
What a year this has been. I’m still processing it all.
What started with a simple meeting with RTE back in November has lead to our best result in nearly 30 years! Bambie Thug proved them all wrong and smashed not only records but attitudes everywhere. The witch may not have been crowned but they won our hearts forever 💙🖤💙 I feel privileged to have witnessed such a performance live, the amount of pride and joy Bambie has brought back to our nation cannot be underestimated, we’re back on the Eurovision main stage again!!!
While this year had it’s fair share of controversies, that are still emerging it is important to focus on the positives, we grew from 300 to 1000 members, we’ve a newly revamped Eurovision drive within RTE, we’ve hired our first artists into Ireland this year Suzy, Connelly and Brooke, the first of many to come! Multiple parties throughout the year and across the country, we as a group have raised over a thousand Euro for Doctors Without Borders, and so many more things have happened as well!!!
Some of my personal highlights have been, aside from Bambie absolutely rocking it from start to finish! were celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary with so many of ye in Copenhagen, witnessing Aine having a meltdown of joy over meeting us for the first time, seeing Carlow Rising everywhere around Malmo and beyond, and honestly witnessing everyone at their best and happiest throughout the year, forming new friendships and making one of the most wonderful joyous communities a person could be part of.
We’ve lots more planned for this year and next, we’ve the Malmö After Party on May 25th in the Odeon. We’re planning the summer party mid August, following the success of our Pub Quiz in Malmö we’ll be bringing it to the Summer party as well, more details to follow! And the great and glorious Halloween party of course, so start planning your outfits now! Last year had some really amazing costumes! We’re planning a Battle of The Decades EuroBash in Cork for later in the year and other parties to be announced. The end of the Eurovision Survey will be out soon. We’re looking into grants to host larger events, merchandise (this time we mean it), rebranding etc
I got to meet so many of ye over the last year with so many more to meet, let this be the beginning of something beautiful and amazing not only for us but for Ireland. Ye truly are a most wonderful bunch of people a person could ever know, the love and support shown and given is tremendous and I thank ye from the bottom of my heart. The effect that positivity has on others is infectious, no wonder they all want to join us.
But before I go (for now, I know, I know, Shut up Frank!) I want to thank those who gave their time over the last year to help propel this club to the next level and beyond. Mark, Aaron, Paula, Peter, Michael, Jennifer, my long suffering husband Jonathan, Matthew, our mysterious Social Media guru, and all the admins who have helped throughout the year. I’m going to be cheeky and put a call out to everyone here, just giving us one hour of your time can help us push this club into the stratosphere, have a think about it and reach out anytime, take a few weeks off and have a think about it.
I know that I’m leaving out a lot, but know this, I’m immensely proud of you all, and the potential in what we can do, in the most positive and amazing fan club in the world.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to have a very long nap, and I’ll see you all at a EuroBash near you soon!
Yours sincerely
Frank Dermody
President Irish Eurovision Fan Club
Who was your favourite singer of the year? what song made you feel the most? Who had the best props?
Anyone is welcome to vote!
Votes close – Sunday 9th June
Banish the Doomsday Blues by joining us on Saturday the 25th of May in the Bourbon bar upstairs in The Odeon Dublin for our first ever Eurovision after-party.
Entrance is free and there will be lots of Eurovision hits to dance too
It’s time to start voting in our annual Kate Ryan Eurovision award, for the best song that didn’t make it to the 2024 Eurovision Final
For those of ye that don’t know, it’s an award given out to the Artist that you think SHOULD have qualified this year. It’s named after Kate Ryan who was one of the favourites to win Eurovision 2006 but failed to get out of that mega semi final of doom, 23 entrants with only 10 spots
Ireland’s Bambie Thug has spoken about how grateful they are for the support from their fans at this year’s Eurovision Grand Final.
The Cork native artist came sixth in Saturday night’s final in Malmö, Sweden, with their genre-shifting track Doomsday Blue, marking Ireland’s most successful achievement since 2000.
Speaking to RTÉ after the final, Bambie said the support from their fans “means everything”.
“It means everything to me. I’ve been in this industry for seven years, writing for others and having my art overlooked.
“Finally we have this platform and people are recognising and we’re getting messages from major labels. Finally, they’re taking note.”
“There was a huge response to the sweepstakes which were organised by OGAE Ireland, the Irish Eurovision fan club, where hundreds of members entered in the hope of gathering the most points from the countries they were given.
Over €1,000 was raised for the charity Doctors Without Borders.”
Thanks to all who took part and helped us raise money for this worthy cause!
Ireland’s Eurovision entry Bambie Thug, singing Doomsday Blue, has qualified for Saturday’s final in Malmö, Sweden.
As widely expected, the Cork singer was among the ten acts to qualify from the first semi-final on Tuesday night at the Malmö Arena.
With Ireland’s Eurovision commentator Marty Whelan promising something extraordinary, Bambie Thug delivered a superbly staged performance that mixed menace, melody, and the dark arts, ending with the exhortation to “Crown the Witch”.
Eurovision voters took heed. Ireland last qualified for the final in 2018.
OGAE Ireland Statement
Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l’Eurovision (OGAE) Ireland calls on the Israeli broadcaster KAN and the Israeli Eurovision delegation to abide by the constitution of the OGAE, which is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and especially respect for human rights.
These values are common to the Members of the OGAE, in a community in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and effective equality for everyone prevail.
We further call on the aforementioned parties to abide by the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest, which state that participating broadcasters must ensure that all necessary measures are undertaken to safeguard the interests and the integrity of the Eurovision Song Contest and to ensure that the Eurovision Song Contest shall in no case be politicised and/or instrumentalized and/or otherwise brought into disrepute in any way.
We express our profound disappointment of the politicisation and propagandization carried out by the Israeli broadcaster and delegation, and their violation of the Contest’s values.
President’s Statement
I didn’t boycott Eurovision when Russia was still in the Eurovision, pedalling anti-LGBT hate. I did, however, not go to Eurovision in 2019 when it was hosted in Tel Aviv.
Eurovision is an easy target for something important to LGBTQ people and I find some of the online rhetoric to be disturbing.
It is never ok to bully or threaten people under any circumstance and the abuse that the artists, in particular Bambie Thug, Olly Alexander and some fans are receiving is appalling.
Conscience is everyone’s own business. To some there are valid reasons to go, to others, there are valid reasons not to. Nobody should be abused online for deciding either way.
I support the exclusion of nations that break international law, and at the same time believe it’s important for pro Palestinian voices to be at the contest. They’re not mutually exclusive.
I believe that actions are stronger than words at times, which is why we as a club have organised a sweepstakes fundraiser, which has raised over 800 euro so far, for Doctors without Borders, specifically for Gaza this year.
Frank Dermody
President OGAE Ireland
