{"id":317179,"date":"2025-12-15T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317179\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:39:09","slug":"eurovision-star-marc-roberts-i-co-wrote-some-songs-with-daniel-odonnell-i-remember-when-the-royalties-started-coming-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317179\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision star Marc Roberts: \u2018I co-wrote some songs with\u00a0Daniel O\u2019Donnell&#8230;\u00a0I remember when the royalties started coming in\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In this week\u2019s Me and My Money feature, singer-songwriter Marc Roberts shares how his upbringing shaped his relationship with money and his biggest extravagance<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marc Roberts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4624158a-3c1d-4014-9ad3-57bb5bf43fc4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Marc Roberts<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Marc Roberts is a singer-songwriter and a radio and TV presenter. Born Se\u00e1n Hegarty in Crossmolina, Co Mayo, Roberts is best known for coming second in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997. He represented Ireland with the song Mysterious Woman, which clinched the No 2 spot in the Irish singles charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Roberts has co-written 15 songs with Daniel O\u2019Donnell and the pair had a top 20 hit in the UK singles charts with the song \u2018Crush on You\u2019. He also presents the Feel Good Breakfast show every weekend on Galway Bay FM and has presented the TG4 show \u2018Opry an l\u00fair\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this week\u2019s Me and My Money feature, singer-songwriter Marc Roberts shares how his upbringing shaped his relationship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}