{"id":614430,"date":"2026-09-28T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614430\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:44:09","slug":"final-three-chosen-for-irelands-junior-eurovision-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614430\/","title":{"rendered":"Final three chosen for Ireland&#8217;s Junior Eurovision entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final three contestants have been chosen to go head to head to decide who will represent Ireland at this year&#8217;s Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta in October.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caleb Kirwan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0025156e-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nCaleb Kirwan<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Kirwan (14) from Leopardstown, Dublin, Naomi Gribben (13) from Mayobridge, County Down, and Isa-Mae Lyle (14) from Derry City have made it through to the final selection on TG4 on the 4th of October.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Louise Cantillon, with John Sharpson as the new backstage presenter, the judging panel of this year\u2019s series is Niamh N\u00ed Chr\u00f3in\u00edn, Hugh Carr, and Eurovision winner Linda Martin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Naomi Gribben \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/00251572-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nNaomi Gribben <\/p>\n<p>One of the three finalists will represent Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, live from Malta on the 24th of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final three contestants have been chosen to go head to head to decide who will represent Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-614430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}