The Eire Factor
With six months to go before a single note is sung in Moscow, tabloids in various Eurovision member states are already chockful of gossip about who could be carrying the pride of a nation on their voicebox next May.
Over in Ireland, fans have been getting a tad anxious that no official news about their national heat has been released - usually, this sort of stuff is all sorted long before Christmas. But that delay could all be down to one man - Johnny Logan.
One Irish paper revealed at the weekend that Logan - the only person to win Eurovision twice - is in top table talks with RTE (Irish telly) to be involved, somehow, with the nation's 2009 Song Contest entry. Whether that is as a singer, songwriter or sort-of song-supervisor, remains unclear. It is also rumoured that, if Johnny takes on the job, a deal sweetener includes his own prime time TV show.
Nobody at Camp Logan has denied the rumours so far.
Then, of course, there was the small matter of Saturday's X-Factor final - and the equally diminutive Eoghan Quigg.
The fun-sized bronze medallist has now made it clear he would love to represent Ireland at Eurovision (if that happened, it would virtually guarantee 12 points for Ireland from the UK), making the prospect of a High School Riverdance number in Russia a real possibility.
So, what do you think? Johnny - or the Quigglet? (if I was Harry Hill, I would suggest only one way of finding out, but I'm not, so I can't).
And does this mean will we find a blonde teenager belting out a Logan-penned number under the green, white and gold of the Irish tricolor at the Olimpiskiy Stadium in late spring?
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Jamie McLoughlin - The news editor of Southport Visiter reveals all about his musical hobby that more people should admit to having.
How much lower can the Irish set the bar? Johnny Logan or Eggnog – could you ask for less? RTE are clearly utterly bankrupt of ideas. If you want a boring by-the-numbers ballad, you could go for Logan, but only if you’ve been very, very naughty. As for the talent-free zone that is Eggnog...this would be a numbingly obvious mix of cutesy-pie and sentimentality that would leave the rest of Europe gagging in disbelief that he got so far in the X-factor. In the end I think that Logan will decide rightly that his time is over and Eggnog should be too involved in Simon Cowell’s X-factor tour next year. Now if the Irish went for Rodge & Podge in 2009, I might show some interest...