{"id":450409,"date":"2026-05-15T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450409\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:21:10","slug":"eurovision-missing-a-vibe-with-absence-of-ireland-says-dj-and-long-time-fan-clint-dreiberg-as-he-attends-11th-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450409\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision \u2018missing a vibe\u2019 with absence of Ireland, says DJ and long-time fan Clint Dreiberg as he attends 11th contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest\u2019s official mascot, Auri, in the Eurovision Village (Ian West\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2.84617130.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest\u2019s official mascot, Auri, in the Eurovision Village (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Eurovision is \u201cmissing a vibe&#8221; with the absence of Ireland and other countries from this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Clint Drieberg has been attending the event for the past 11 years but believes that a rethink is required for 2027 as controversy over Israel\u2019s participation casts a pall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest\u2019s official mascot, Auri, in the Eurovision Village (Ian West\/PA) Eurovision is \u201cmissing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17948,97,61,60,3410,43],"class_list":["post-450409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eurovision","tag-gaza","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450409","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=450409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}