In his Irish Times Article Fintan O’Toole(subs required)goes on about people looking down on other peoples enjoyment of the eurovision.

For every one person among the 750,000 who watched the show in Ireland last year with a knowing smirk at a camp so-bad-it’s-good party, a hundred watched it with mild, but nonetheless real, enjoyment. Most of those people would have knocked a bit of crack out of rooting for Leona Daly or giving out about Liam Geddes in the comtest to choose Ireland’s Eurovision entry. But they’ll see the Dustin entry for what it is - a two-fingered salute to them, their tastes, and, by and large, their age group. The pleasures of people who enjoy the Eurovision have been invaded by people who don’t.

Now maybe it is just me but maybe the reason that people voted for Dustin was not some insulting sneer patronizing gesture to simple-minded peasants who like Eurovision and have erstwhile bad taste. But maybe get enjoyment from sending Dustin to the Eurovision and see it as a symbol of the famous Irish craziness that we as a nation are proud of. Maybe it is indeed Fintan O’Toole who is being patronising for thinking that people would only vote for Dustin because they hate Danial O’Donnell fans not because they get enjoyment from the naff and crazy. I like Eurovision not for its solely ballads but its weird and wonderfulness and I am as intitled to like it for that reason as anyone else likes it for their reasons thank you very much Mr O’Toole.

Here is my fav from last year.