Ireland Eurovision star Emmy preparing pop comeback after contest failure with special tribute to Irish music icon
And she's planning to channel her inner
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Emmy failed to impress at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland
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The singer is now planning a pop comeback
It comes after she failed to qualify for this year's
In her first interview since crashing out in the semi-finals in Basel,
Emmy, 24, told The Irish Sun: 'Once you have done Eurovision, no matter where you finish, you are loved. I realise that now. And I feel very loved and appreciated and I am grateful for that."
She added: 'I have sang Laika Party over 300 times but that night in Switzerland was my best performance of it ever.
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'The team around us all thought we were going through. But my brother and I had already realised there wasn't going to be room for us.
"We weren't going to qualify. So we had a couple of seconds before the cameras were trained on us to accept we were not going through.'
But Emmy has no idea why the votes never came for Ireland, and we finished with just 28 points.
One journalist, Tobbe EK of Sweden's daily newspaper Aftonbladet, blamed Ireland's poor result on the singer's silver rocket that he likened to Dustin the Turkey's disastrous 2008 entry - which featured the RTE character in a silver shopping trolley.
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He also claimed that Emmy had been nervous performing on the night.
Emmy said: 'I probably was a bit nervous with millions of people watching, but the crowd were really good behind me.
Emmy represents Ireland at Eurovision
"I never thought about Dustin's shopping trolley. I wanted silver because our theme was rockets and space.
"Anyway Dustin the Turkey is a legend and I'm sure the judges thought the same'.
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Irish fans will get a chance to attend a Laika Party when Emmy plays her first headline show at The Academy 2 in the
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The Scandinavian singer said: 'Along with The Wild Rover, I'm doing an Irish Eurovision medley with a new version of
Given Johnny represented Ireland twice at Eurovision, would Emmy like another go at Eurovision glory for Ireland or her native
She said: 'That's a tricky question. I really don't know. It's really down to the song and if people want to send me again.
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"I wouldn't rule out representing Norway — but I loved representing Ireland because the Irish people and myself are so alike.'
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