{"id":445758,"date":"2026-05-12T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:31:14","slug":"eurovision-song-contest-begins-tonight-as-ireland-and-other-countries-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445758\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision Song Contest Begins Tonight As Ireland And Other Countries Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 12 May 2026 16:26\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Daniel Maher\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a03466a7c581.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo: Leah Farrell\/\u00a9 RollingNews.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Ireland is among five countries boycotting this year&#8217;s competition<\/p>\n<p>The Eurovision song contest takes place in Vienna this week.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland is among five countries boycotting this year&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Iceland are also unhappy at Israel&#8217;s participation as the conflict in Gaza continues.<\/p>\n<p>The first semi-final takes place in Vienna tonight, with the grand final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9\u00a0won&#8217;t show either of the semi finals on Tuesday or Thursday and will show Father Ted&#8217;s Eurovision parody instead of the Eurovision final on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 12 May 2026 16:26 By Daniel Maher Photo: Leah Farrell\/\u00a9 RollingNews.ie Ireland is among five countries boycotting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-445758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}