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There was a time when Ireland won about three Eurovisions in a row, and there was talk of it being on the verge of bankrupting RTE, the national broadcaster. How times have changed. This year’s entry from Donna and Joseph is abysmal. Really, really bad. So bad, in fact, that I don’t even think it will quality in the semis and make it to the final.

Even Paddy Power is only giving them odds of 20:1 of getting absolutely no points at all, 25:1 of forgetting their words (surely impossible considering how bad and repetitive they are) and 33:1 or one or other of them falling over while performing their song. The full set of odds, grabbed from their site, runs like this:

The betting to win stakes are interesting, though. They’ve put Greece up the top with odds of 5:2, which I find very surprising. It’s a decidedly ordinary song. Nothing special at all. Not even very tuneful. And Norway in second place at 4:1 is a curious choice, too. In the preview tapes they are dressed in skin-tight silver jumpsuits that show every wrinkle and pimple and way too much detail in the pant zone for seven o’clock at night. My tip for the top, Hungary, is in third place at 8:1, but poor Omar Naber, Slovenia, finds himself languishing in the bottom third with very long odds of 50:1. He was my joint second, along with Iceland (10:1).

Enjoy him while he lasts. This could be the last we ever hear of him.

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