Jexcessive? RTÉ spent over €200k spent on Jedward’s Eurovision jaunt
There are calls in Irish papers today for RTE to justify spending €226K on sending Jedward to the Eurovision this year.
The bill to send the in the Grimesome Twosome ( 
) to Dusseldorf for the song contest they eventually finished eighth in included €49,000 for a hotel, €12,000 for Aer Lingus flights and €70,000 to the European Broadcasting Union for taking part according to figures released to the Irish Daily Mirror.
The total bill was just over €46,000 more than was paid out last year.
The thing is though that RTE always pulls in the advertising and make a profit on showing it. I for one, and I know a lot of ye out there agree with me when I say that it was money well spent, the boys did us proud in Germany and showed a great face for Ireland 
In a statement RTE have said:
The payout was justified given the huge audience figures the show attracted with an average of 1.17 million viewers and 64 per cent of the audience share.
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Comments (3)
Cheap at double the price!
For boosting the morale of the country and taking our minds off the state of the country, it was money well spent.
But why was there a report on eurovision week said that RTé didn’t put any capital in, so Jedward funded alot of their getting to Germany themselves????