Eurovision winner Johnny Logan hits out at his home team's poultry performance

Johnny (pictured, left, with his hands on his hips) certainly didn't hold back when it came to commenting on the Irish's recent dry spell at the competition, saying about the team at Irish television which seeks out the best possible songs to fly the flag on the Eurovision stage: "They're like headless chickens - they know what result they want, but they don't know how to get there. Successive Irish attempts at putting together the winning structure have put it into such a bad state that we've become a joke."

Johnny was clearly referring to Ireland's failure to progress from the semi-final phase of the 2008 and 2009 Contests - and traditional band Dervish's last place in the 2007 final.

He went on: "The best chance Ireland has of winning it again is to take it seriously and that means putting something into the Eurovision that has a chance of winning. And that requires the country being involved. What the Irish entry at the Eurovision has become is the property of a small group of people. It doesn't belong to the country anymore and that, ultimately, is the problem. In order for it to get back to some semblance of respectability, the song has to be representative of Ireland. We have to prove ourselves again, and we can't presume that just because we're Irish that everybody loves us. Those days are gone."

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