Ireland: The results of the fourth heat of Junior Eurovision Éire 2022
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The fourth and last qualifying heat of the Irish Junior Eurovision 2022 national selection has determined the last two qualifiers for the semi final stage.
Ireland has opted to selected their JESC 2022 hopeful for Yerevan through the national selection "Junior Eurovision Éire 2022". The show will unfold over six successive weeks with four qualifying rounds, a semifinal and a final show.
Following previous weeks' 1st, 2nd and third qualifying round, the fourth episode was broadcast this evening on RTE with the show hosted by Louise Cantillon accompanied by Darragh Ó Caoimh.
Like previous year's a panel of judges includes two permanent jurors while the third spot is filled in by a guest judge every week. Namely, the two permanent jurors are:
- Niamh Ní Chróinín – Host of TG4 youth programming Cúla4, headof Irish-language radio station Raidió Rí-Rá for young people
- Chris Greene – RTÉ 2fm host
In this fourth show the third judge's seat was filled in by Linda Martin, who represented Ireland in 1983 and 1992 winning the contest on her second participation.
The acts that competed in thr 4th qualifying rounds and the results are:
- Phoebe McIvor – “Hold Me While You Wait” (26 stars) – Sing-Off qualifier
- Sophie Lennon – “New York” (30 stars) – Direct Semi-Finalist
- Holly-May Vaughan – “Stay With Me” (23 stars)
- Lauren Wallace – “Always” (25 stars) – Sing-Off contender
- Gillian Brennan – “Take Me to Church” (24 stars)
- Gavin Giligan – “Bruises” (22 stars)
While Sohie Lennon won directly the ticket to the semifinals, Phoebe McIvor and Lauren Wallace went into a sing-off round during which the jury favored Phoebe to advance to the semifinals.
With the fourth qualifying round the semifinals line up has been completed that act that will battle for securing a spot int he final are:
- Lara Gleeson
- Clare Keeley
- Amber Dawes
- Marley-Peig Leonard
- Niamh Noade
- Caillín Joe McDonald
- Sohie Lennon
- Phoebe McIvor
The Irish Junior Eurovision national selection will continue next week with the semifinals. Once the national selection determine the next Irish hopeful the national broadcaster, RTE, will internally select the song for Yerevan.
Ireland in Junior Eurovision
Ireland has participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest five times since their first appearance in the 2015 contest. The Irish language broadcaster, TG4, is responsible for the country's participation in the contest, and uses the national final Junior Eurovision Éire to select the Irish entries.
Ireland debuted in the contest when TG4 participated in the 2015 contest in Sofia, Bulgaria, when the song "Réalta na mara" performed by Aimee Banks placed 12th in a field of 17 countries. Ireland has achieved one top ten placing, in 2016 when the song "Bríce ar bhríce" performed by Zena Donnelly placed 10th.
In Gliwice-Silesia at JESC 2019 Anna Kearney represented Ireland with her song "Banshee" which finished 12th receiving 73 points. Despite having initially confirmed their participation in the 2020 contest in Warsaw, Poland in January 2020, TG4 announced in August 2020 that they would not participate in the contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last year Paris, Maiú Levi Lawlor represented the nation with “Saor (Disappear)”. He finished 18th with 44 points.
News Source: TG4
Image:Junior Eurovision Éire
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Angelos D.
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