Ireland: Maiú Levi Lawlor's Junior Eurovision 2021 entry, 'Saor' released

Tuesday, 16 November 2021

• The song that the Irish representative, Maiú Levi Lawlor, will be performing at Junior Eurovision 2021 next month, titled "Saor", has been released. 

  Just a month ago Maiú Levi Lawlor won the the Irish national final Junior Eurovision Éire 2021 and will be delivering the song "Saor" on La Sein Musicale's stage on December 19. 

  The song was released earlier today monrning along with its official music video. The song itself has been created by a group of Maltese and Irish songwriters with an experience in Eurovision or Junior Eurovision. Namely the the people that teamed up in order to contribute to the Irish Junior Eurovision 2021 entry are: 

   

  • Niall Mooney – Co-writer of the Irish Eurovision 2010 and Junior Eurovision 2019 songs.
  • Lauren White Murphy
  • Brendan McCarthy
  • LA Halvery
  • Anna Kearney – Junior Eurovision 2019 representative who co-wrote her own entry.
  • Anna Banks – Contributed in the lyrics of Ireland’s JESC 2019 entry at Junior Eurovision 2019 
  • Cyprian Cassar – Maltese songwriter who is behind the lyrics of the Maltese entry for Junior Eurovision 2018 & 2021. 

   

  The official music video of the song was shooted in Bray in County Wicklow on the east coast of Ireland and  in Maiú’s school Coláiste Ráithín, which features in the video. 

   

  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.

  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.

  Ireland's last participation was in Gliwice-Silesia at JESC 2019 with Anna Kearney and her song "Banshee"  which finished 12th receiving 73 points. 

   

  News Source: TG4

  Image: TG4