Ireland Eurovision legend to announce Irish jury votes at song contest final 30 years after epic win
Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won the Eurovision 30 years ago in 1994
Rock 'n' Roll Kids hitmaker Paul Harrington is set to announce the Irish jury votes on Saturday night at the Eurovision grand final.
Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won the Eurovision Song Contest 30 years ago in 1994 with the hit tune, written by Brendan Graham and performed for Ireland.
It was the country’s sixth overall win at the song contest.
After winning the Eurovision, Paul became a popular performer for A-list celebrities at the VIP Room in Dublin’s Lillie's Bordello. He entertained the Rolling Stones, Prince, and U2.
Alongside his brothers, they recorded Molly Malone with The Official Leinster Supporters Group in 2009. The song became the official anthem for the Leinster Rugby Team, with them performing it live at the RDS.
After winning Eurovision, Charlie wrote Anybody Got a Shoulder? for Kat Mahon to compete at Eurosong in 2015. Unfortunately, she didn’t make it to the official Song Contest after coming in second.
Charlie has been married to his wife Goretti for many years, and they have known each other since Junior Infants.
Four years after Eurovision 1994, the singer lost his only son Shane, who was killed in a construction accident while working in Quincy, Massachusetts. Shane was 21 years old at the time when the scaffolding he was working on collapsed.
He told RTÉ’s Liveline in 2015: "After 17 years, believe it or not, you will have learned to cope and it is easy now to talk about it in retrospect in a coherent way than it would have been at the time."
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