{"id":3172,"date":"2016-01-13T07:49:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T06:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2016-02-13T23:56:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T22:56:48","slug":"moet-nicky-byrne-ierse-record-veiligstellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/moet-nicky-byrne-ierse-record-veiligstellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicky Byrne (Westlife) represents Ireland with &#8217; &#8216; Sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">The previous rumors about potential Eurovision participation of ex-Westlifelid Nicky Byrne this morning were confirmed by the Irish broadcaster RT\u00c9. Also his song for the Eurovision song contest, <em>Sunlight<\/em>, was already released.<\/p>\n<p><em>Irish Independant<\/em>, the best-selling daily newspaper in Ireland, picked up last week with news that Nicky Byrne to Stockholm mag. Later the message was removed from the website. Nicky Byrne was a member of the popular boy-band <strong>Westlife<\/strong> at number fourteen times in the United Kingdom one knew. Also in our country the band scored hits including <em>Uptown Girl<\/em> and <em>My Love<\/em> in the early Noughties. The band held to exist in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Byrne also developed a career as a presenter. So he has his own radio show on RT\u00c9 2. He is also voted fifth sexiest man in Ireland. Now he would again plunge into the studio and work on a song for Stockholm. He would then <strong>Petra Fellow<\/strong> , moreover, meet for the first time personally after he gave her earlier the Irish points during the song contest in Malmo three years ago. That tasted apparently to more because the past two years, he was also <em>spokesperson<\/em> for Ireland. More info on Nicky Byrne can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/kandidaten\/stockholm-2016-ierland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Candidates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a <strong>tweet<\/strong> of the RT\u00c9 was officially made the news this morning:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s OFFICIAL: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickyByrne\">@NickyByrne<\/a> to represent Ireland in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eurovision?src=hash\">#Eurovision<\/a> 2016 with the song <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NickyByrne?src=hash\">#NickyByrne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hBq60bUYhK\">https:\/\/t.co\/hBq60bUYhK<\/a> Sunlight<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 (@rte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rte\/status\/687167242878992384\">January 13, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>And that&#8217;s also the <strong>second song<\/strong> immediately for Stockholm. After <em>P\u00ebrrall\u00eb <\/em>from Albania we get <em>Sunlight <\/em>from Ireland, now only but in studio version. The first real action we get on <strong>Saturday 13 February<\/strong>. In a broadcast of <em>The Ray D&#8217;Arcy Show <\/em>on the RT\u00c9 will Byrne his song live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube\"><a class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fDYz83wpBcE\" video-title=\"Nicky Byrne - Sunlight (Official Lyric Video)\" title=\"Play Video &quot;Nicky Byrne - Sunlight (Official Lyric Video)&quot;\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fDYz83wpBcE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><p>Ireland holds the record in terms of the number of Eurovision victories. With <strong>seven titles<\/strong> they possess one more than Sweden. Christer Bj\u00f6rkman, head of the Swedish delegation, has already indicated that his country but what like to title holder would like to be. For Ireland is the pressure to finally to perform again. Their last win dated from 1996 when <strong>Eimear Quinn<\/strong> won <em>The Voice<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/geschiedenis\/2015-wenen-2e-halve-finale\/\" target=\"_blank\">In Vienna last year<\/a> knew Molly Sterling with <em>Playing With Numbers<\/em> to reach the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news was confirmed by the broadcaster RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,9],"tags":[158,278,1121,14,1122],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ie","category-stockholm2016","tag-ierland","tag-ireland","tag-nicky-byrne","tag-petra-mede","tag-westlife"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}