{"id":9977,"date":"2016-05-24T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2016-05-27T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:31:00","slug":"nicky-byrne-zelfs-u2-kan-songfestival-niet-winnen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/nicky-byrne-zelfs-u2-kan-songfestival-niet-winnen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicky Byrne: &#8216; Even U2 song festival can not win &#8216;"},"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=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/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<p>The singer looked on the Irish radio back on are not as successful participation in the Eurovision song contest in Stockholm. He does not regret his participation.<\/p>\n<p>Nicky was by presenter Ray D&#8217;Arcy interviewed in his radio show on Radio 1. &#8220;I really had the feeling that I could bring <strong> <em>Sunlight<\/em> <\/strong>Ireland back to where it belongs in the Eurovision song contest. I love the song festival and will remain so, &#8216; says the Irishman.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Irish radio listener would Byrne there better make sure that comes to <strong>Westlife<\/strong> back together next year with the whole group to take part in the song contest, but the singer of his own: &#8220;I have to admit that I doubted to solo, and so without group, taking part. Westlife would get <strong>more attention<\/strong> , but in the end &#8230; now can we still refer to <strong>U2<\/strong> , that doesn&#8217;t make any difference anymore. Even they would not win. Ireland has no &#8216; magic recipe more &#8216;, is his reply.<\/p>\n<p>Nicky Byrne now fears that after its <strong>flop<\/strong> no known Irish artist quickly will want to participate in the Eurovision song contest for Ireland: &#8216; I Had scored, then had more artists dare car &#8216;, it sounds. According to Nicky are they in Ireland and in the United Kingdom to <strong>cynical<\/strong> if it on &#8216;t song festival.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"ezJsUMD-y-I\" data-time=\"0\">\n<div class=\"play-button\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"play-button\" alt=\"play\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/themes\/songfestival\/img\/play.svg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He does not regret his participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8745,"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":[158,76,278,1121,2085,1441,1443,1523,1122,2084],"class_list":["post-9977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ie","category-stockholm2016","tag-ierland","tag-interview","tag-ireland","tag-nicky-byrne","tag-radio","tag-rte","tag-sunlight","tag-u2","tag-westlife","tag-zanger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}