This is getting sad. For the second Saturday in a month, I found myself watching the webcast of another nation selecting its Eurovision entry - but I'm sure you'll forgive me this indulgence.
This was the Irish selection - with all eyes focused on a certain turkey puppet with a flatulence problem.
Dustin the Turkey swept all opposition aside in the Irish heat at Limerick's University Hall, with a frenetic dance number which includes the lines 'Drag acts and bad acts and Terry Wogan's wig'.
The panel - 1970 winner Dana, X-Factor judge Louis Walsh and last year's winner, the rather sour Serb Marija Serifivic - were arguably more entertining than Dustin himself.
The former MEP, whom I suspect never swears, sweats or breaks wind, was not at all impressed with Dustin's antics and called for the Emerald Isle to withdraw from the event straight away rather than face the humiliation of having the bird represent them. Louis Walsh was more ambivalent, while Serifovic looked as if she'd rather be anywhere else than the Irish heat (understandable considering the more pressing matters back home) and was convinced the creature was a duck.
Either way, this ridiculous number is unlikely to be ignored by the voters in May. It doesn't deserve to be, but this could well be Ireland's eight Contest-winning entry.
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Will Redfearn wrote...
We seem to have had Turkeys entered for years!!!
Posted by: Will Redfearn | February 27, 2008 9:26 AM