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  • Real Irish music!

  • Gosh, -facepalm- Ireland has definately had better performances, but I love the song itself~ ^^

  • wonderful song & singer! <3

  • Read the artickle on wikipedia about Prague's Spring, that should help partialy to explain what it is all about. John Waters, a sonwriter, has described this song as "a kind of Celtic celebration of the Eastern European revolutions and their eventual outcome". The song is also quoting Dubček's alleged comment:"They may crush the flowers, but they can't stop the Spring." For anyone who lived behind the iron curtain, this song means a lot. To me, as a Czechoslovakian, this song means quite a lot.

  • I really should apologise on behalf of Ireland for this one, it was very very poor!

  • lol, think im the only one here who likes the song :L

  • @xxxsaz13xxx

    I liked the song, probably not her best performance, but song is grand.

  • Oh jesus...

  • Yeah, you know, it seems to me that this is a singer with a pretty voice who got nervous and forgot to breathe properly. And perhaps she has not had a lot of formal training.

  • Maybe it's just the irish accent, but this isn't too bad. But granted, as an american, Irish accents make everything better, so I don't really know what a good irish singer sounds like. wait...no....this is pretty bad, just got to 2:20

  • Sorry here, but Dustin rocks!!! Not understood in its own time, it's a genius. Don't you dare to compare it with this very unlucky, weak voiced performance....don't forget the swiss, cheese.

  • better than many of the high rated songs

  • I must be the odd one here because i really like this song

  • i just don't understand this, Dervish are one of my favorite bands and i love kathy jordon singing usually, granted she has bad diction but i love the tone of her voice, but this was just a disgrace, i honestly don't know what they were thinking!!!! it defo didn't expose what dervish are capable of or indeed the talent in ireland!!

  • Anyone who thinks this is bad, listen to the studio version

  • That was the worst eurovision entry for ireland!I couldn't believe RTE was so stupid to put this in!If this was 20 years ago that would still come last.An absolute disgrace

  • for a singer picked to represent an entire country, she is pretty god damn awful.

  • I love you Irish hippies!!

  • @gugulu18

    Dustin was a disgrace.

    This was ok but way too ancient for godsake.

    Niamh kavanagh in 10" was amazing

    As were the girls in 09"

    not to mention jedward this year they represented us for our music and dancing talents.. Dustin 'sang' about winning eurovision names and songs...and this lady just screamed like and enraged banshy being raped by the devil.. seriously man grow some ears and use them:)

  • @adaml0946 blow me skank

  • Cathy Jordan is a beautiful singer and a beautiful person - the best! Whatever went wrong here must have been down to technology letting them down. Go Roscommon, go Scramogue, go Cathy we love you!

  • Calm down people, she was nrevous... but she has a very beautiful voice. I love this song, and no, I'm not irish.

  • @kpongr2 good for you if you can understand it but I did listen to it and I still can't make out most of what she's singing - her diction is awful and she's just a terrible singer - but that's just my opinion :-)

  • lol!! this song makes me lmao!! :L what the hell were we thinking!! im from ireland btw :L

  • she should die :D

  • @markdavis97 stupid jerk

  • @markdavis97 you should be raped

  • I was in the music video for this and i dont care what everyone says, its a fantastic song. She may not have sang her best but at least she actually qualified for the final.

  • oh sweet jaysus...

    The song is actually kinda catchy but she doesn't look right atal. Is she sober? LOL.

  • she came in too early at the beginning, but even if she had come in at the right time, it would have just meant a 2 second delay before the atrocious singing started

  • If only they could not sing bad I would give 12 points.

  • First of all the first version was far better. And she is absolutely horrible live.

  • i love this song, but this live version from the esc is, well, not soo good :-)

  • Hopefully they can stop..her singing

  • THIS IS SHIT

  • OMG!!!!!!!!!!! SHE NEEDS A VOICE! LOL

  • Omg terrible song, but i cant stop playing it 4 years on...i've even started dancing around in the same dress she has and even I have strange irish men following me playing with their instruments from behind!

  • @smoochlad me eaither!!! lol!!!!!!

  • She is an AWFUL singer! You can't even make out what she's singing!! It's a stupid song anyway which I suppose didn't help matters! Our worst ever entry into eurovision (and yes I mean worse than dustin!)

  • @babybobs6

    I'm from Slovenia and I understand every word.

    You must just listen it.

  • @babybobs6 U high? this song and Dustin were one of the best entries at Eurovision since ever. In fact Ireland always had good entries, except Cr#pward, unlike my country. Jeesh, some people can't appreciate what they have.

  • @gugulugu18 No I am very much sober thank you very much - I just happen to have a different opinion to you. You need to realise that not everyone holds the same views as you do.

  • Last plaze!! Nawahaha!!

  • im irish but this was a bad entry like the counrty is full of good irish trad singers but she sounds like a coke head, and the results can back me up,

    good song, should have picked a better vocal lead

  • Not my taste

    //Ice-T

  • your right you can stop the spring. but today the irish government will tax the spring

  • Eurovision 2007 was AMAZING!

    Best so far.

  • And Scooch got more points than this song? What is wrong with Europe?

  • I clicked on this video expecting great things...

    Clearly, i thought wrong...

    

  • poeple in europe think that shes singing out of tune but its an irish old tradition of singing called sean nos! shes a sean nos singer! but to us irish she has a beautifulo voice!!!! she didnt perform to her best but still great!

  • 5 points from poland

  • Oh god.

  • For a singer with totally no stage experience, this was really well done and the song is also beautiful, reminds me of Lord of the Rings. I don't know, Europe's taste for music keeps getting more and more depressing...

  • @hennnuv

    ....dervish have been playing for 20 years, just so you know. they are great, this wasnt one of their best at all, probably just an off night.

  • I'm into folk! :P really love it

  • thats a very special voice. i think this makes the song so special :) i love it. well done ireland :)

    Greetz from Germany

  • the melody is just WONDERFULL but the voice makes the song bad! what a bad voice... ı'm so sorry

  • a fucking embarrassment!

  • @TheNathanj2009 the song or its score??

  • fantastic.. greaaaat song, really :)))))

  • yay good job! i love ireland!

  • good song, bad performance though :/

  • next year ireland enter jedward or the turkey again or the script or u2 or the pogues or boyzone 

  • the only thing im missing there is the banjo :)

  • This song is so nice :). A shame this had to end up below some of the other songs.

  • this was not for Eurovision!!! this song should have done much better...thanks Eastern Bloc for making Ukraine a 2nd place but not this

  • 5 points for ireland from whole europe.

    ;D

  • Is she drunk?

  • last place im not suprised i dont like dis song at all sorry

    and im irish

  • 2:34 They can't stop the fring?

  • she cant sing !!!!! she sounds drunk !!!!!! its a good song but the performance was shocking !!!!!!

  • @filcom101 she was nervous!

  • @filcom101 your mom is drunk. lol

  • Jedward would do a better job this

  • euro vision has become a joke they only vote for the countries that they are in politics with not the music

  • Its a very cool song. sooo........pieceful........ i like it. its sad they didnt become under the top 10

  • what did she take?

  • She cannot sing, wtf is going on here? How did they get this far?

  • @CaptainYossarian Every other live performance I have heard she has been a lot better. Not good here admittedly.

  • If Nianh Kavanagh was singing this song, or Rita Connolly we'da walked it....

  • last place? I love this song

  • Lol how funny. I love this song, but I dont think that she sings it well here. Its a shame because it is such a beautiful song with lovely music.

  • I loved this song can't understand why it didn't do better.

    As Irish person at a loss as to understand why Ireland don't do better in Eurovision this, 2008, 2006 were good songs. If Niamh Cavanagh who won in 1996 doesn't do well this year I will be surprised. Hope block voting stops ruins Eurovision for me. I hate that no matter where France, Spain, Germany, UK come they never have to go through the semi-final to get to the final, I know they contribute more funds to eurovision but unfair

  • @thebigloc1 if you look for the eurovision votes of the latest years you can see that Spain, France, Germany and UK never are at the last position

  • Awful. Just awful. This is what happens when an internal selection is made. Trust me, REAL Irish traditional music is incomparable to this pathetic excuse. Didn't even deserve 5 points tbh.

  • @MrNotSoFamous It got 5 points from a professional jury.

  • she was out of tune at the beginning and she kind of looks funny with her hands up :P good band though

  • I just love Irish music. I couldn`t understand why Europe doesn`t like this song because it`s so beautiful! I just love it! One of my favourite songs of all times!

  • She sings off key...

  • Vauuuu so so so beautiful song

  • they visited our school :D

  • Id keep that to myself if i where you! They came last...

  • oh.i forgot that aha

  • Holy crap, I,v just watched the pathetic winners,100% shite.

  • Coming last in this shitty competition is more credible than winning it. Dervish are a great band, Cathy is wow, just don't know why they agreed to do the euro in the first place. We all make mistakes.

  • jesus how could this get so low?

    even flying the cr*p got higher :(

  • For all those moaning about her being off-key, that's part of the style of sean-nos singing. Sadly this eerie and somewhat haunting sound does not translate well when using English lyrics. Furthermore, RTE's Eurovision selection panel should have been rounded up and shot for allowing a respected traditional band to face the mockery of playing to a backing track. It was an insult to our musical heritage and instruments.

  • @TheNTC84 No, being out of tune is not 'part of the style'.

  • Interesting point about Dervish, the Albanian telephone vote failed and that's why the jury was used. They gave 7 points (the only score on the night). I have no doubt that the sean-nos sound would be appreciated in the Balkans and the East of Europe whose countries' folk songs share a similar vein. Especially now that the juries' votes have returned permanently. Dervish's huge mistake was to make Cathy Jordan sing in English. Btw Waters later revealed the song is about the Prague Spring of 1968

  • this is really good

    my 2nd

    how did it come last!?

  • Love it!

  • Mr too..

    Pity some rude people don't understand the beauty of the Lyrics and song..

    So she was Flat in parts, who isnt?

    Most celebs mime anyway Dervish are amazing and still touring over europe they were in Oslo about 2 weeks ago from today

  • This song is completely different from the others ! I like it . If I rember right it became 22 O.O I have been never to Ireland but I want to go !!! =D Greetings to Dublin !

  • ha ha ha ha ha

    holy fuck this is shite......

    her voice is flat fuck, but this shouldn't stop John Waters from being ashamed of himself for putting together such an abysmal pastiche of my heritage

    yes, I'm Irish (and I mean really from Ireland)

  • don't be so harsh, I really liked this song. It always reminds me the summers I spend in Ireland.

  • Dont bring your own country down, are you aware of how rude you seem. Thank God most Irish people are not like you. If they were I would never travel to the country in the Spring of each year to visit my friend...

    Furthermore I hope you read my lats comment further down the page, I loved this song and So what if her voice was off key at places. it cant take away the beauty from the song

  • The song is awesome, but she have no presence on scene....it's sad, this could have win!

  • Makes me proud to be irish apparently it was a song about czech republic

  • East europe dont like Ireland,UK,rapping,traditional­

  • Lies! Several people in Finland do love irish (and also old celtic) culture!

    ^__^

  • Beautiful, This song was too good for eurovision and the rest of europe need to catch up. She hit a few bad notes but the actual song is amazing..

    <3 Ireland and Dervish

    My favourite songs In ESC 2007 were;

    Ukraine, Serbia, Ireland and Russia, all for different reasons. This is from a Nordic person also.

    --Thanks

  • ehm i like irish folk music, but i think, this wasn´t the best irish music

    it is a littel bit to american.

    it must be english and not donald duck-english (american-english)

  • Amercan folk music is the same as Irish folk music, because it originates whatever way you put it from Celtic culture.

    AND which nations are celtic,

    Ireland 100% and Scotland and wales a bit aswell.

    American's adopted this type of music and you are trying to claim this is American? .. typical how rude

  • I saw dervish this evening in waiblingen, germany. they were really good, also the other songs, although, they didn' t play "they can't stop the spring".

    I still cannot understand, why they got the last place at this final.....

  • Very good song!

  • the music overpowers her voice...thats too bad.

  • She's so cute :)

    Ok I agree wit you, when you say "her voice is not good", but the song and the performance is better than other songs in the contest who finished better than irealnd... I think she deserved a better position, because the song it's really amazing... The melody is simply perfect !

  • Her voice is terrible. That explains why this song came last.

  • im from ireland and i think this is just terrible

  • her voice is terrible. the musical instruments are great though,

  • she is lovely looking

  • I love it,deserved win.

    (I love folk music =)

  • i really _love_ this song but the performance was just poor :(

  • omg...I love that music

  • I think this song came las because of politcal voting. Recently it's always the UK and Ireland which come last, and the contries which come from the gneral same area are coming quite high up. The rest of the qorld seem to hate England and Ireland...

  • WHAT the fuck is wrong with people these days ... Eurovision should be about who can better show their unique national spirit and NOT stupid music with bitchy representations if I wanted that I would've watched Rihanna ! I love the song ... it sounds great and it has Irish written all over it ! My sincere congratulations ! The representation was nice as well ... loved that folk-costume :D!

  • The nerves are obviously on her mind

  • she sings out of tune

    if they got somene else then maybe we might have done better but its noa a great song eithers

  • thats the type of her voice and she was in Norway not too long ago and she came to Oslo and sung the same and i loved it :)

  • we came last because every year we give points to england and they give us nothing.Dont vote england only ireland and albania because they gave us 7 points

  • they gave ya 5 points.

  • Maybe they gave you nothing because this was a crapper of a performance?

  • "England" (or rather you mean UK) loves westlife so if you sent something like that the UK would vote for it.

    I am sure Dusitn would have got points from the UK if we could have voted for it.

  • I would have voted a million times for Dustin. :)

  • That should have been a reply to Chulcoop.

  • it's only cos albania were using a backup jury

  • This song is great, but it didn't sound good live. I think that's why we came last because of the performance on the night. Having said that, their performance was much better than some other countries which got to the top 15!

  • nice song but i cant understand hardly any of the words that probable why it came last

  • this didn't deserved last place!maybe even i the top 15 it should'd been

    greets from romania!

  • A good eurovision song destroyed due to bloc voting as usuall by eastern europe

  • Beautiful song... Love her dress too

  • I think, it's not a song for Eurovision...

    It's not a song for me ;)

  • super music:))

  • love it

  • this is very authentic!!, very irish!!, not like Greece 2008 or other countries that just copy copy & copy.....

  • Gotta agree with menapia1. With this entry, ireland werent even good enough to come in last place but i think dustin deserves to win it this year, well just forgive and (thankfully) forget dervish!

  • i like this song and i think that woman sings good!

  • that was probably the best eurovision song that i hav ever hear and it came last for ireland ffs

    i ws watching that on bbc one last year live

  • I think they did a very good job!

  • toi ei todellakaan osaa laulaa... -.-

  • LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IRELAND

    LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DERVISH

    I voted for they

    Spanish kisses

  • retards they should no wat da east europeans lyk by now

  • IRELAND WAS BEST

  • I thing so:

    1# very good, brilliant

    Ireland Hungary Serbian

    999# poor

    Ukraine

  • What were RTE thinking ? What made them thought a song about Prague Spring would win a pop song contest

  • Nice song. That woman just cannot sing.

  • such a nice song.. i love it!!!!!!!!!! it should have been in a better place.... DERVISH YOU ARE GREAT!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP GOING!!

  • Ihave only one thing to say: toi muija honottaa liikaa

  • They can't stop the spring!!!I love it

  • Thank you for that wonderful song!!!

    They may steal the honey

    But they'll never steal the sting

  • In the current Eurovision format, it was never going to succeed. However its interesting to note that Albania, the only country with a jury system, gave Ireland its only points. Had the jury system been in place, with people who actually could judge a decent song, it could have done very well

  • it is actually a good song but she f***ed up the vocals

  • This was one of my favourites.

  • Just to make a point that the Irish people did not choose Dervish. It was council chosen by the government to pick the least expensive group that auditioned basically. Even U2 offered to prevent Dervish from entering! I'm Irish - the singer is shit. The Traditional group are really good but that sow in the dish clothes is atrocious. Eurovision 2007 was a complete embarassment for Ireland. I really want to clarify that the Irish people did not pick them!

  • Irlanti on ihmeellinen kieli

  • in 2004 or 2003 the Netherland almost send in a song like this and I like it!!

  • now that was pure shit...holy fuck....bring back Johnny Logan!

  • pogue ma hone xD or however you say it. makes you ashamed to be irish lmfao.. wth is the dancing about? T_T

  • J'aimais bien moi, dommage qu'ils aient fini derniers.

  • Armenia +

  • What on earth is a spreeueuaeng?

  • The singer was great. And them, who dont like she, i say kiss my (_|_)