Six acts were battling it out on Eurosong 2024 – Ireland’s selection for Eurovision in Malmö. The choice was made on long-time running talk show The Late Late Show. At the end of the night, Bambie Thug was declared victorious with “Doomsday Blue” and will fly the Irish flag in Sweden.
This year’s Eurosong showed a wide variety of songs and a new generation of Irish voices made it to the Irish selection show. After a day-by-day song reveal on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Ray D’Arcy Show, the public and jury had to choose between Ailsha, Bambie Thug, Erica-Cody, Isabelle Kearney, JyellowL and Next in Line.
You could watch Eurosong 2024 on RTÉ One and on RTÉ Player worldwide. All the action kicked off at 21:35 GMT (22:35 CET).
Bambie Thug will represent Ireland at Eurovision 2024 with “Doomsday Blue”
Eurosong 2024 results
Results
Similarly to previous editions of the selection, the Irish entrant for Eurovision 2024 was determined by a combination of votes from: a national jury, an international jury, and the public.
Our very own Deban Aderemi was the chairperson of the four-person international jury. They did not vote based on the live performance the public saw. Instead, they voted earlier based on dress rehearsal footage. We should point out that while Deban announced the points for the international jury, his individual rankings did not necessarily align with the final tally from the jury.
The four-piece national jury consisted of a panel headed by Tracy Clifford, a presenter on RTÉ 2fm – the country’s most popular pop music radio station. The international jury consisted of four experts from a wide range of countries.
The national jury, international jury, and public vote each counted for a third of the the total score.
Overall results
- Bambie Thug – “Doomsday Blue” (32 points)
- Next in Line – “Love Like Us” (24 points)
- Ailsha – “Go Tobann” (24 points)
- Erica-Cody – “Love Me Like I Do” (22 points)
- JyellowL – “Judas” (16 points)
- Isabelle Kearney – “Let Me Be The Fire” (8 points)
International jury (1/3)
- Next in Line – “Love Like Us” (12 points)
- Erica-Cody – “Love Me Like I Do” (10 points)
- Bambie Thug – “Doomsday Blue” (8 points)
- Ailsha – “Go Tobann” (6 points)
- JyellowL – “Judas” (4 points)
- Isabelle Kearney – “Let Me Be The Fire” (2 points)
National jury (1/3)
- Bambie Thug – “Doomsday Blue” (12 points)
- Ailsha – “Go Tobann” (10 points)
- JyellowL – “Judas” (8 points)
- Erica-Cody – “Love Me Like I Do” (6 points)
- Isabelle Kearney – “Let Me Be The Fire” (4 points)
- Next in Line – “Love Like Us” (2 points)
Televoting (1/3)
- Bambie Thug – “Doomsday Blue” (12 points)
- Next in Line – “Love Like Us” (10 points)
- Ailsha – “Go Tobann” (8 points)
- Erica-Cody – “Love Me Like I Do” (6 points)
- JyellowL – “Judas” (4 points)
- Isabelle Kearney – “Let Me Be The Fire” (2 points)
What are your thoughts on Eurosong 2024? Was Bambie Thug your favourite act tonight? Are you happy with the results? Let us know in the comments down below!
Wannabe Marilyn Manson for sure
Horrible music imo, but I’m glad they chose something that isn’t generic
The amount of comments on this article tells me enough, it’s qualifying
This is awful. NQ
Is this a forum 4 kids ?
if so can understand them not understanding doomsday blue
poor little creatures
Blasted it on Spotify
the lyrics are brilliant
the singer is brilliant
and europe will love it
who won’t like it ? Nerds with autism
sadly
Bambie Thug would surely distance herself from such autism-shaming. Please think again.
Themsrlves
I hope people realise this isn’t a generic song. It’s a song meant for EUROVISION to stand out. Not for the radio. Obviously it’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea but I think it could be a winner ????
A Winner ?? More Like A Loser From The Pitts Of Hell
Again learn to spell if you’re trying to make a point. Pits*
Poor babe no taste in music
Cacophony. Terrible.
I’d like to see you do better Dr Mistery?
I Could Sneze And It Would Be More Artful Than This Garbaje , Its Travisty Irish Thinks This Is Apropriete
First of all if you want to make a point learn to spell. And second of all no one wants to see you sneeze please next time your trying to make a point try harder!
did U want the sound of music ? Or Mary poppins? Live with it – this song is going to be in the top 5
Worst song EVER, and the screams at the end are MUCH more creepy than Lordi’s ENTIRE winning song. I hope either that Bambie Thug chooses to boycott Eurovision due to the participation of Israel or that this song will end last in the semi-final
I really loved the song from the first listen. So I just hope the right staging and a good performance will really help the song reach a wider audience. I get that it’s not for everything but it’s definitely for me ?
I look forward to rehearsal week for this one. The late show performances are all a bit “tesco value” range and does nothing to sell the song to me. I just hope that this doesn’t come across as a something more suited to a fringe comedy event when it gets to ESC stage. As it stands, this song won’t give Ireland their 8th win, but it’s interesting enough to ensure it won’t come last in the semi’s Part of me was hoping Ireland would have come back fighting to try and claim back their title of countries with most wins.… Read more »
This is good. Welcome back Ireland. A big winner contender.
I love the fact that Ireland have caused a civil war in these comments. Nothing like causing a stir.
So everyone is saying Tim Burton inspired staging… I agree, but I think we need to add in Guillermo de Toro as inspiration.
Not a lot of people are going to understand this. I uhhh, don’t either.
cringey and unbearable to listen. Definitely a NON-Q
This actually gives Ireland a lot of potential. But they will have to present and stage it right.
That’s just another way of saying its a dud
Don’t be coming on here acting like the obnoxious pop stans on twitter. We don’t need that in this community.
No One Cares For Your Sensetive Feelings . She Was Just Sharing Her Opinons …
ur so obsessed with this song as u have commented more than 20 times hating on it in one post!
NO !!!
Poor Ireland…
Bambie’s music is just not my sort of music, i more like somewhat catchier, easy listening, anthemic
okay sorry for the insults, but unlikely i’ll ever like this genre lol
Are you 24/7 on this forum? Jesus Christ… Do you ever take any breaks? : D
what a terrible comment. Let people do and voice their opinion. Its a free speech platform
The most interesting one. The studio version have some interesting points that lose strengh with the live performance but I hope they can set up a good show in May. It has potential to develope.
It was my fav and I didn’t though Ireland would go for it after the safe choices the’ve been making.
“Go Tabann” fell too in the middle-of-the-road in the end to outstand. The others weren’t enough to qualify and had less potential.
I felt Doomsday Blue was really elevated live.
I agree. I liked the added elements live such as the witchy laugh at the start. I liked the colour scheme, the costumes and the choreography and thought it was elevated as much as they could for the LLS setting. This was about doing enough to secure the ticket to Malmo and now there is freedom and time to fly Bambie to the moon( not the stars?). I think backing singers( off stage) are needed and more dancers for Malmo but I 100% tryst Bambie and what they will do for Malmo.
There’s a guy on YouTube who fixed the audio for this performance and it sounds way better. Check it out. Kubas eurovison
Is this seriously the best Ireland has to offer these days?
Are I seriously so narrow minded u can’t actually hear ?? Really ?
Last year, Germany also thought, let’s do something shocking and provocative and then we will get at least some points. Well…
Except it wasn’t shocking, that’s why it did so badly.
Cha Cha Cha absorbed Lord of the Lost, Joker Out and Voyager’s votes.
Lord of the Lost almost literally sang the same sentence over and over again 20 times. That’s not a song unless you’re a toddler.
That’s how “Heroes” or “Sound of Silence” choruses were also constructed and they were celebrated by the juries as manna from Heaven.
Sadly Lord Of Lost Was Just Allful 0/10 Thats Why They Did So Bad . Ireland Is Allfull Plus Its A Satanic Ritual Song So People Unfortunetly Will Wote For It …
It wasnt though, it was rock.
Personally, I liked ‘Go Tobann’. There was so much there to work off and so much potential for tweaking and perfecting in time for the ESC. Like the tin whistle could’ve been cleaned up and sharpened, the music video could’ve been utilised a lot more and had some insane dancers that fused Irish dancing with some angst that wouldve made an interesting spectacle. Sadly however, it was performed like a school show. And I don’t mean the classroom theme (because I get the message), but the performance had no structure, was chaotic and you lost Ailsha in the performance when… Read more »
I don’t want to be mean, but as a native speaker I found Ailsha’s “Irish” very difficult to understand. And the backing track and performance appeared “influenced” by Dancing Lasha Tumbai.
agree
OMG, this is a total mess. Ireland is a definite NQ, the song is terrible, terrible…
Last place, why? bad song, bad performancw and un addition ireland supports the te rror organisation ha mas…lasr placw indeed
Disco rayado de propaganda
Wiwi has also stopped reporting on Israeli Eurovision preparations, why don’t you do us a favour and boycott them? You just look like an attention seeker now
Its understood, and wiwiblogs love israel, thats why….btw israwl will send the best singer ever, no real competition to israel this year, in your face te rror supporter
Change the record you sad bas tard
You’re a laughable excuse.
Also you must have read me wrong, I said Wiwi isn’t reporting on Israel because of what they’re doing.
So again, why are you still here te rror supporter?
Bambie Thug has actually very clearly spoken out against the genocide against the Palestinians.
The classroom staging for Go Tobann was pretty cringe and the baby voice was very off-putting but I still think that was by far the best song of the bunch
Question – why would a country choose a song like this to represent them at Esc but then their “professional jury” would vote for the most mainstream songs on the Eurovision Final?
lol so true, they sure love some scandipop
That’s because jury at ESC doesn’t work the way they should. But in general it always makes people excited to send a song that has tele potential than jury potential or that is just unique and different.
A jury is never supposed to agree with the public, that’s the point. People seem to think juries should be there to confirm audience vote, to say ” good job.
But why having them if they go for the popular vote?
I’m generally not a fan of choas but this one, it is something. I like it since forst listen and I don’t know why. I just like it. It was in fact the obly song I liked in the irish selection.
I don’t know how well it could do in Malmö but I do hope they work a lot on the vocals and the staging so they can offer Ireland its best result since a long time.
It’s currently my favorite song this year but it will change quickly with other countries. Well done Ireland 🙂
Wouldve prefered Ailsha but thanks Ireland for rewarding originality in your top2 🙂
originality? freakshow monsters are sooooo 2006 – Lordi did it first lols
I wonder what’s original about Doomsday Blue.
I think they were referring to its darkness. That witchiness and druidry that you don’t ever see in an Irish national final. It’s usually weak pop.
National Jury, televote, audience, and panel all wanted to #sendthewitch… We made ‘our’ choice. I love it… Not because of all this risk nonsense as I don’t care how we do score-wise… Impossible to tell… But because it a novel, fun, varied, and creative piece.
They did their own production, graphics, costumes etc. cool if you don’t like it… But be nice and accepting.
And have a listen to other Bambi Thug tracks… It’s they’re genre… Not a ESC gimmick.
Over and out for me… Too nasty in here this morning… And 3-months to go… Meh!
PS: my message was number 666… witchy 🙂
You’re own comment is one of the nastier ones
Well said
What I was trying to state was that, you said it is nonsense for folk here to state that Bambi is a bit of a risk,is as nasty a commment as has been made here,as I have fully supported Bambi from day one ,I was one of the people who said it could be a bit of a risk but I fullly supported her winning it
Read it again… I said ‘I’ don’t care about the ‘risk taking’ aka sending something soley because it risky or gimmicky… As I don’t care how we score… I only care that it represents something creative. Some posters here are being exceptionally rude to ‘people’… They’re not ‘acts’… They’re living people who don’t deserve nastiness. You can express opinion without vitriol. Fun Banter during live shows is one thing, usually, in Ireland, directed at the TV station, but cutting people down is not on, and undeserved. Just clarifying, I hope politely, as you altered you message. Nothing personal. Enjoy your… Read more »
Ok thanks for clarifying you’re comment.
Ok I’m 14 under par for misinterpreting a comment
14 over par I should have said
The only choice was made . Thank you Ireland for sending the witch !
this freak show act is one huge gimmick though, gross nf winner, Erica Cody was robbed
Is it really a novelty act though?
yes, but more an act like musical theatre i think
More like a sixth form project
So let’s make some things clear. For me this song has nothing to do with past joke/satiricsl entries that many people seem to compare it with here (e.g. Mama SC). I would parallelize the effort here more to other alternative entries like Telemoveis. I listened to this song for the first time now and it certainly intrigued me. It had some creative ideas that were really nice and had potential. Ultimately though, I do find it chaotic. I didn’t like the live performance either, but I am aware it will perhaps be completely different at ESC. For now I will… Read more »
Late late show is low budget, the acoustics are poor, the acts are limited with staging and the sound is notoriously bad. With that in mind was any performance great lady night? NO! But we have all seen Ireland choose terrible songs during NF and improve come the main show. This year Ireland has a bit of a head start, in that we have selected a very divisive song. People who hate it will hate it, but the people who love it will really love it. It’s certainly not middle of the road and I believe that is where Ireland… Read more »
That would be Brooke Scullion , poundland Dua Lipa who failed.to scrape through a poor semi final? Great
The comment was that Brooke improved massively from the LLS which it did- FACT!
Enough to fail to scrape through a poor semi final. Big whup. She couldn’t sing either. And all the deluded called her song (loosely termed) “risky” and “something different” too
Brooke did alright though, she had fun in Turin, will never forget her ”olé olé olé” post performance, that was simply iconic
influenced by Dua Lipa and tbh Dua is current so it is a compliment for her i guess
Poundland version
We’re all practically adults in here. You don’t have to lower yourself to sniping and bit**ing and getting personal about a performer who doesn’t know of your existence.
Also, in response to your comment, Brooke was NOTHING like Dua Lipa. People need to stop looking to desperately compare artists. She had her own package which clearly wasn’t your thing, and that’s fine. But stop being a hormonal teenager in the comments section.
She tried to ne Dua Lipa. More Dire Lipa though. And once again, her tuneless warbling of a horrendously poor song FAILED to scrape through a aub par semi final.
Bambie Thug’s was, that’s why she had great clapping and cheering afterwards and people chanting “BAMBIE, BAMBIE, BAMBIE!” and why she won
Croatia’s “Mama SC” sounded weird too but it was partially due to the anti-Russian sentiments around Europe that it did quite well with the televoting. The Irish entry can’t count on that sort of additional points.
It’s not a joke or message song.
I’m very happy with the result. Going into the live show Ailsha was my favourite followed by Bambie Thug. However the live performances changed this, I thought Bambie Thug was outstanding. Bambie, given financial constraints as they are not signed (paid for the dancers, costumes, makeup themselves) and the limitations of the LateLate set (acoustics, limited camera angles) really did come up with a comprehensive package that rte can put money behind to translate it to the big stage. How the song was delivered really made it easy for me to decide on how to vote. I love the “Nightmare… Read more »
Something incredibly dodgy going on with that international jury vote, wiwibloggs should be embarrassed. Is Deban going to discuss it?
Do you want to Interrogate him and make him give a public apology?
Is he not suppose to have his own opinion? Do you really think if this song gets out of the semi with only televote—a sane professional jury member will place this song in the top 10? The only way to get jury votes is to be in the top 10 of 26 songs. ESC juries don’t vote on how risky or different a song is for a country. They consider voice, composition, lyrical content, presentation, etc
That’s BS everyone knows it’s not a song contest anymore. You either have to stand out and be different or have a political statement.
Totally agree. Since when does Deban give top marks to a boyband , even if he was out numbered they wouldn’t haven’t got the top marks. Defo something suspicious going on
Irlanda 7/12
Im surprised by the amount of negativity, not gonna lie. Have yall seen the live performance? Its pretty good already and it can only get bigger and better. Especially those last 30 seconds are STRONG! I’d say Ireland is back in the final!
Ireland is nowhere near back in the final, hopefully this generic stench will celebrate a well deserved 0 points last place result
The fact people are so polarised excites me: reactors are certainly loving it but the contrast means people who love it will upvote it – there’s no way to downvote a song in Eurovision! Songs that had this effect include Hatrid Mun Sigra, Mama SC and Cha Cha Cha.
Exactly this! I was one of those who was worried about people voting for the boyband on Friday so I voted more than I would have normally for Bambie and got friends( who would not have voted for anyone) vote for Bambie. I did not vote last year for WY because it was meh! The haters can hate but that will just push up the votes and not take votes away.
Sorry Ireland. I don’t like this terrible song
Congrats to Bambie Thug! Ireland made a good choice! Good luck in Malmo!
very typical of Ireland to go with a generic plastic swede to Malmo UGH
could they just withdraw next year pls
Lol, salty Brit I’m guessing with all the comments you’re making ??
Could you withdraw, please?
no
To be frank I didn’t really like any of the entries here, but I’m glad Ireland are going for something different. May take a few listens for me to get into it properly, but well done to the Irish public for picking this one over the generic boyband!
National Jury, televote, audience, and panel all wanted to #sendthewitch… We made ‘our’ choice. I love it… Not because of all this risk nonsense as I don’t care how we do score-wise… Impossible to tell… But because it a novel, fun, varied, and creative piece.
They did their own production, graphics, costumes etc. cool if you don’t like it… But be nice and accepting.
And have a listen to other Bambi Thug tracks… It’s they’re genre… Not a ESC gimmick.
Over and out for me… Too nasty in here this morning… And 3-months to go… Meh!
Sorry Emily… Somehow I ‘replied’ to your message… I meant to just write a message… Nothing above meant for you. Enjoy your day.
Hahaha, no worries. You enjoy your day, too!
Some Folk hear are clueless lol
Why Ireland is afraid to sent song in irish language. Ailsha was my favourite.
The school desk reminded us of the uk entry years ago – best forgotten
The ghost of Daz Sampson will forever haunt us.
Because it was bad.
I would like to see a song in Irish but not this one, her pronunciation was appalling, for example instead of saying “briste” for broken she was saying “?ríste” which means trousers, then she did something similar for “cliste” (intelligent).
Because it was absolutely abysmal live
Look, i have a soft spot for weirdos, but this…this ain’t it. I’m sorry Ireland, but this one is going to the bottom of the barrel.
Wow let’s see eh
sorry your boyband didn’t win lol
Next In Line have a good song, will keep listening to it, and i myself will just ignore the freakshow loser
Alright Louis
And now Ireland is 17th in the odds!
I imagine a lot of Irish people betting right now lol
I just don’t buy it.. I understand she wanted to be original but it sounds and looks just cheap and boring.. not sure if Bambie can actually sing, her vocal is very shaky. Silvia Night 2.0. I definitely prefer st. Pedro and his „Dos extraños”, that’s the quality!
Really ? Listen to her album and listen to the song last summer stripped Back before you make ludicrous claims
Croatia’s “Mama Š?” sounded weird too but it was partially due to the anti-Russian sentiments around Europe that it did quite well with the televoting. The Irish entry can’t count on that kind of additional points.
No One Cares
at least now we also know the winner in croatia, obviously nothing can go wrong for Baby Lasagna now 😉
I think the winner so far barring a political Iceland win is either Croatia or Ukraine.
Slovenia if set right could be a challenger with staging potential.
Ukraine 4 th victory. But more deserved then 2016 and especially 2022.
How can u know the winner when countries haven’t picked their songs – total idiot
Why in the odds Iceland Is 1°??
Why Iceland Is 1° in the Odds?
Delulu
Bambie Thug loser, loser and retire your career
withdraw from this contest, instead of further embarrassing Ireland
It’s just a song and a Eurovision entry, no need for hatred!
Please behave like you possess some braincells, I am embarrassed to be Dutch. You are just a frustrated troll.
Of course you’d say all this under an anonymous moniker! You should withdraw from this comments section and dissappear under your bridge.
I really enjoyed the show, it has such an authentic and friendly vibe, and I’m delighted with the outcome. The right song won, I thought the staging of what is a very tricky vocal (lol!) was great and there’s plenty of time to add polish. One to watch.