Marty Whelan

Marty Whelan's live blog for Eurovision 2012 in Baku. Ireland 12 points ! Jedward to win !

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We're going off air now. Good night from Duesseldorf !!!!! Auf Wiedersehen and see you again on Lyric !

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Congrats again to the boys !!! We'll celebrate either way tonight !

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Voting is over. Azerbaijan wins with 221 points. Ireland 8th place.

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Not much to tweet at the moment ... Still waiting for another 12. Currently at 11th place.

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12 from Sweden. Now in 3rd.

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And another 12 from Denmark ! Hurrah.

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First 12 points from the UK

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I've decided to only tweet for every "Ireland, douze points".
So I suspect that I might be tweeting quite regularly :-) Best of luck lads.

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Great interval act. So now, let the voting begin.

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The confidence levels are high here. How are we going to keep the nerves through all of the voting. Maybe the interval act will help.

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So, that's it. 25 songs done and dusted. And Ireland were, without doubt (or bias), the best song of the night ! Well done boys !

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The final song of the night. It's Georgia. If you have fallen asleep by now, this will wake you up.

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Serbia and a very 60's number. Where's the "LIKE" button here ? It's bringing me back to my youth.

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Ukraine with their sand box are on now. Most people in here are paying more attention to the backdrop. Was it good ? I was distracted.

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Iceland just over, we all like this song and it's all the nicer considering the background story. Spain are happy and away at the beach.

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Slovenia: sounds a bit like Christina Aguilera. She has some voice and a powerful song.

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Azerbaijan - there's a kind of magic about this song and it has been one of the favourites here all week.

6 songs left. Bring it on !

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Next up, one of the favourites within the Irish camp, Austria.
She has some voice on her altogether !! And when she hits the high notes...

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Germany have been taken by a stranger as more glass explodes on the stage. Romania now, a nice safe catchy song.

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The home crowd go wild for Lena, defending her Eurovision title. Silver cat suits and slinky alien dancing. No other act like this tonight.