It’s been a wild ride for Ryan O’Shaughnessy: beating the odds to qualify for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest final, seeing his song Together become a global talking point around issues of diversity and inclusion, rising to third place in bookmakers’ odds, and then ending up 16th in the competition overall. this whole Eurovision thing, this has been the something strange.”The 25-year-old Skerries man was speaking on Saturday afternoon, in advance of the Eurovision final. “It’s something I had to think about because a lot of artists who go to Eurovision might not succeed. It’s kind of tough for them in their careers afterwards,” says O’Shaughnessy. We’ll look back on this in 10 or 15 years and say, wasn’t that crazy that that was even a thing, two guys dancing on a stage?”It’s clear that O’Shaughnessy needs a bit of down time after all the Eurovision madness.

Source: The Irish Times May 13, 2018 15:22 UTC