{"id":26923,"date":"2025-12-17T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=26923"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:15:54","slug":"former-eurovision-winner-charlie-mcgettigan-to-hand-back-trophy-in-israel-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=26923","title":{"rendered":"Former Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan to hand back trophy in Israel protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-45.png 310w, https:\/\/gsrra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-45-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2025\/12\/13\/former-eurovision-winner-charlie-mcgettigan-to-hand-back-trophy-in-israel-protest\/&amp;display=popup&amp;ref=plugin&amp;src=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2025\/12\/13\/former-eurovision-winner-charlie-mcgettigan-to-hand-back-trophy-in-israel-protest\/&amp;text=Former%20Eurovision%20winner%20Charlie%20McGettigan%20to%20hand%20back%20trophy%20in%20Israel%20protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2025\/12\/13\/former-eurovision-winner-charlie-mcgettigan-to-hand-back-trophy-in-israel-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2025\/12\/13\/former-eurovision-winner-charlie-mcgettigan-to-hand-back-trophy-in-israel-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><strong>Former Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan says he will hand back his Eurovision trophy from 1994, in protest of Israel\u2019s ongoing participation in the song contest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ballyshannon native won the competition along with Paul Harrington, singing Rock n\u2019 Roll Kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He decided the 2024 winner, Nemo, decided they would return their trophy to the European Broadcasting Union in a similar protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza has seen several countries, including Ireland, to decide to pull out from the next edition of the competition as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-46.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26925\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video posted by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign on social media, Charlie announced his reasoning for handing back his winner\u2019s trophy \u2013 once he finds it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast night, just before I went to sleep, I received an Instagram message from the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest winner, someone called Nemo,\u201d Charlie said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey were saying that in protest against the inclusion of Israel in the 2026 contest, they returned their trophy to the European Broadcasting Union.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey came across as a very sincere and a very intelligent person, and stated their case really well. I, therefore, in support of Nemo, would like to return my trophy to the EBU as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, our win was way back in 1994, and I can\u2019t get my hands on whatever trophy we received back then, but if I do find it, I will return my trophy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2025\/12\/13\/former-eurovision-winner-charlie-mcgettigan-to-hand-back-trophy-in-israel-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2025\/12\/13\/former-eurovision-winner-charlie-mcgettigan-to-hand-back-trophy-in-israel-protest\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan says he will hand back his Eurovision trophy from 1994, in protest of Israel\u2019s ongoing participation in the song contest. The Ballyshannon native won the competition along with Paul Harrington, singing Rock n\u2019 Roll Kids. He decided the 2024 winner, Nemo, decided they would return their trophy to the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-sample-category","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26926,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26923\/revisions\/26926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}