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Irish entry in 2007
Ireland has decided:They can't stop the spring in Helsinki!
The complete results:
- They can't stop the spring - written by John Waters and Tommy Moran
- Until we meet again - written by Malachi Cush, Pam Sheyne, Martin Sutton and Don Mescall
- Walk with me - written by Stig Lindell
- The thought of you - written by Matti Kallio
You can find the esctoday.com live coverage of the show here.
After Brian Kennedey's 9th place in Athens, Dervish will be able to enter directly the final round in Helsinki.
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The only place I can actually see the official video is on YLE. Compared to many of the over the top videos for this year,this is quite simple, but it actually works. When I heard that they were using a group of school kids I feared that it might come across as cheesy but it doesn't. It does manage to sell the song without any gimmicks. Many people (myself included) were critical of Cathy Jordan's voice, listen to her again on this video, she sounds perfect. It's pure and uncommercial with more substance than most of this years songs. Watching many of the videos over the weekend it struck me that in ESC now the most important thing is to make an impact or even shock people in order to achieve votes from 15 year olds........sad!
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official video for they cant stop the spring...
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official studio version of 'They cant stop the spring' by Dervish
esc is coming home......
an mhaith ar fad
And the name of the band... A bit strange for an Irish band... Or I'm just not familair with Celtic/Gaelic tradition... Hope someone can answer this... Thnx 
I'm quite confused with this year's Irish entry... Three minutes of the song I simply spend waiting for someting to happen in it... Don't really know how to articulate it... And the lyrics... ? All in all I find it quite weird ...
Perfection! Brilliant! Love it and this is the second song so far I've decided to vote for. Now that you reminded me, I have no idea what's the first choice 
Seriously now, I love this song, I've always been a huge favourite of Irish entries. I've voted for Bryan Kenendy last year, when most people doomed him to failure and he did pretty well This one will do even better! Good luck Ireland!
Greetings from Bosnia
Nice little Kelt rytham. Not for ESC though I must say. I like listening to it but rather not acceptable for Europe. I would place it around 11th place
@ Jan Castricum
Ireland and the Netherlands are two very different countries, with different histories, for a start Ireland never had a colonial past, so don't generalize. Like many Irish people I didn't have a problem with from other cultures coming to live with us. However immigration is not all black and white (no joke intended), it can bring many problems. When someone voices them, straight away they are called racist. Last year there were more than 200,000 people came into Ireland, the year before 150,000. We have a population of 4,000,000. I will let you do the maths. the Netherlands has a population of 16,000,000. I'm sure there has never been a time when your country had more 800,000 immigrants arrive in one year. I'm sure if there were you can anticipate some of the problems which would arise. Would it be wrong for people to be concerned? I was in the Netherlands several times in the last few years and it's far from Utopia. This is not really the place for such topics discussions, so in future lets stick to ESC
Sean,
Please do understand the problems of the Polish people ! Do YOU speak Polish, Dutch, German, French or any other languige apart from your native languige ?
In the Netherlands we had the same "problem" as you, with people from Marocco, Turkey, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc. etc. But in Holland we had too many people from abroad, and we already had 16 million people living here in our tiny country. A lot of them also did'nt speak our languige, but why should we blame them ? We have a very difficult languige. I presume you also do not speak it. Our Minister: Mrs. Rita Verdonk may not have become very popular in our country , but thanks to her other countries did also have to receive people from abroad.
Thanks to the European Community Ireland is doing fine now, after being "poor" for many, many years..
the EC brought a lot of companies concerning technology to Ireland. So it is time now for Ireland too to help other countries or their inhabitants. So we can make a strong economic Europe !
People may say that this is not an issue, but you, Sean, brought this up with judging the lyrics of the song from Dervish.
I love Ireland, I've been there 8 times. I know the Irish people "love" to welcome tourists/visitors , but when they're finding out that a foreigner works in their country, they'll turn like a leaf.
Time for you now to become more European !!
i have to say, i didnt like it at the start but it is growing on me....big time! i was at the show on friday, and song c defo got the best reception.i preferred song b, to be honest.with bit of reworking,thought it cud have been very anthematic.but nobody seems to agree with me at all.
anywho,hopefully we'll do well this yr.mit surprise some people.although, forums ive read on this suggest people are very much split.i reckon itll either do really well, or flop big time!that said,at least its billion times better than d dribble we've been sending since, well 1996 really.
Horrible! Simply horrible
I was listening to RTE Radio 1 last night where there was a live recording of Dervish in concert recently. Cathy Jordan sang two songs back to back, the first was a Suzanne Vega song "The Queen and the Soldier"? which she sang to perfection. Then she proceeded to buther Cher's old hit "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" (in a semi sean nós style). It was awful! how could the same person sound so different in the space of a few minutes?
Hi guys, well, as a pro musician from the west of ireland myself, I think I was extremely surprised to hear Dervish were the group chosen to represent our country. I would have thought that there were far more entertaining trad outfits out there if that was what we were looking for, and quite honestly my main reason for saying so is this. While they are a good trad band , they are certainly not world class or indeed even euro class, and their vocalist is one of the few singers I know of, who is capable of singing a song from start to finsh in a key that is at least a half-tone flat , or indeed sometimes sharp, to what the instruments are playing. That would be my main worry for Dervish, and not so much their musicianship. Its all about the song and the singer on the night and I'm afraid that Cathy Jordan is lacking in that regard and while she can sing certain old style, Sean nos songs, reasonably well she has also been known to murder quality songs , and is certainly not a versitile vocalist for the bigger stage of europe. Just my humble opinion !!
Sorry , but in my opinion the singer in dervish sings totally out of tune and always has done so.
Singing lessons maybe would help>?
Ok seán and manus let's not turn this into an immigrants debate, let's just judge the song, which basically is getting so much airplay on RTÉ radio that I am now sick to death of it!
I liked our entry until I realised it is about celebrating all the Eastern Europeans living here. To many polish people here in Ireland ...they so unfriendly and all stick together and speak polish etc. At least Irish people mixed and inter married in UK and contributed to British society in a huge way and indeed in USA but all these Eastern Europeans just here to earn money, send it home and constantly complain that Irish people are unfriendly etc....hello all they do is bloody work and never go out. I went to the cinema with some friends recently and a guy from Poland came with us and all he did all night was complain about the price of the cinema ticket..9 euro. Ok Ireland is expensive but no need to keep going on about it. Then he started giving out about how he felt he was being rascially discriminated by the social welfare office because they asked him questions before issuing him with a social services number...god next they will be demanding we all learn polish and only eat that horrible bread they do buy in LIDLS. And they spend very little here. In fact they all shop in LIDL and ALDI which is terrible for its lack of support for Irish producers. This aint being racist but I only expressing what alot of Irish people feel but are to afraid to say anything as the do gooders will brand them nazis etc!! Europe is to politically correct and I for one am tiring of it.
It was on the news tonight in Ireland that there are now over 150,000 polish people working and living in Ireland today and the Irish song reflects this ...it is a celebration that "the curtain has been raised" and that east/west is now together and living happily all as one in Europe.....this song is a celebration of Europe today and certainly not out to create controversy.
@ Pam White,
Relax Pam, this was checked out before Friday night and as far as I know the EBU were made aware of the lyrics and there was no problem. To be honest I do not see it as political at all. It just happens to take a one line quote from Alexander Dubcek about something that happened almost 40 years ago (The Prague Spring) and builds a song around it. It's a song about the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, that's all. Theres nothing wrong with that. Would you prefer, a guy in drag singing about a drama queen? Before you're down on me like a tonne of bricks, I'm gay myself and to be honest Denmark's attempt pulling a gimmick like this just makes me yawn. I'd rather quality to cheap tricks.
Have listened to the words of You cant stop the spring several times...not at all happy...definitely a politically motivated song! I have a feeling that is breaking the rules for Eurovision set by the EUB?? Can someone clarify this for me?? This could really open the floodgates!!
To be honest, on my first hearing I would have gone for "Until we meet again", but after hearing "They cannot stop the spring" I am more than happy with what has been chosen to represent us this year in Helsinki this year. I'm glad to see that the responses are more positive than negative. I can only echo points made by other contributors. The song may not be perfect in it's present form, but I have no doubt that it will be polished and honed over the next three months. John bear was quite right when he said that the acoustics on the Late Late show are always bad. I've said this before but I'm glad that Ireland has the guts to stand on it's own two feet and not run with the crowd jumping on the latest bandwagon. I don't expect everyone to like it, fair enough, but less of the "boring Irish ballad" comments. A good ballad is better than a mindless pop ditty, at least this song has substance to it (listen properly to the words). There are no gimmicks here, they're not needed.
I now wish they selected Until We Meet Again. I can't compare it to They can't stop the spring. It's sooo beautiful, especially the intro and the ending. Please vote again!!! Looks like the last performed song seemed to be more adventageous...
This is just a brilliant song....irelands best for a long time.
my top 5 so far
1 - Ireland
2 - Norway
3 - Malta
4 - Netherlands
5 - Romania
but who am I....I havent got it right for years
Good Luck to everyone...but Ireland I love Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I love this song, it's beautiful, very representative of the Irish Music, and the lyrics ....wow. I don't know how it's going to work in Helsinki, but i love it
I just LOVE irish song! I can' t stop listen to it...
Ireland twelve points from France !!!!!
It will become a traditional Irish pubsong ! In other words: I like it a lot !
Good luck Eire !
Noddy, "who are people from other countries to judge our song"? In Eurovision they're everything - you can't give yourselves 12 points! 
Glad to see you're proud of your entry though. Good luck Ireland!
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