Media Hits Out In Favor and Against Jedward

Something is Rotten in the State of Ireland and we ain’t talking politics this time.

There is a lot of Media backlash against the Twins and their ability to sing live, a lot of people are convinced they will not be singing live on the Late Late but their Mentor Caroline Downey-Desmond has hit out against such comments and confirmed they will be singing live. Fellow Eurosong contestants have also hit out against Jedward-bashing with both Nikki Kavanagh and The Vard Sisters making statements approving of the boys entry and of them personally. Nikki herself has come under fire for apparently making comments against the Grimes twins, these of course were just rumors started by the Anti-Jedward camp.

This article in the Herald shows as much:

Jedward’s road manager Liam McKenna has slammed suggestions that John and Edward Grimes (19) will not be singing Lipstick live.

And he revealed that he and the twins’ mentor Caroline Downey-Desmond believe there is a “dirty tricks campaign” being waged against the teenagers in their Eurosong bid.

“She is absolutely devastated this is being said about Jedward because she has tried so hard to be dignified and be involved in a fair competition but this is going too far,” he said.

“They will be 100pc singing live and it’s upsetting for anyone to accuse them otherwise without any proof.

“As far as we’re concerned, the competition starts on Friday night and this dirty tricks campaign is just in bad taste.”

He was speaking after former Eurovision winner Paul Harrington criticised the twins’ talent and said we wouldn’t get out of the semi finals with them as our entry.

Speaking while launching a rival’s entry this week, he said they would struggle to hold their own in Germany and they wouldn’t be singing live.

Composer Shay Healy also waded into the row by saying how the twins would be relying on Rebecca Creighton to do all the singing and described them as a “joke”.

However, their road manager Liam has said it’s all part of a campaign to undermine the twins’ ahead of their Eurosong performance on Friday.

“They have been up at 6am every morning this week rehearsing the song and their routine and it’s them singing it, not Rebecca,” he continued.

“We brought her in for backing vocals because there’s female lines in the song.”

We say, go on lads, do your country proud on Friday! I will admit when I first heard about Jedward entering Eurosong I did feel dread but listening to the song and seeing their dedication, if they can pull off a decent performance then they will have my vote.

In fact there have been a few comments here complaining that they cannot vote for Jedward more than 187 times, maybe we’ll restrict it to once per IP address next time