North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

We demand a recount

Trust RTE to make a bollix of it. Tatu, the Russian pop duo who came third in the Eurovision Song contest, are claiming that they were robbed of the title. Why? In Ireland, the idea was that people would be allowed phone in for five minutes at the end of the contest to vote for the songs. Unfortunately, the votes were not counted in time, so RTE used a back-up set of votes, from a nameless jury. Luckily, since it is the Eurovision, no one actually cares. Pravda show little sympathy for their own entry, summed up in the quote

Reporter Sergey Sosedov said that you have to learn how to sing in a duet.