13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
RTE forced to CUT weekly Fair City episodes for third week in row due to special broadcast & replacement revealed
RTE have been forced to cut Fair City's weekly episodes for the third week in a row due to a live special broadcast scheduled.
Viewers will notice some differences to Thursday's
One's usual line-up.
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Just three episodes of Fair City will be airing this week
Credit: RTE
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Eurovision's second semi-finals air on Thursday evening
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However, for the last two weeks, there has only been three episodes on per week.
The
The show has been replaced by a repeat episode of Cheap Irish Homes at the usual 8.30pm slot.
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Viewers will see Maggie Molloy and Kieran McCarthy help the Keanes, who want a detached property with outside space so they can work towards becoming self-sufficient.
The RTE shake-up comes due to the clashing of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Content which airs on Thursday, May 15, at 8pm until 10.15pm on RTE2.
Ireland's entry Emmy, will be performing her hit Laika Party live from Basel in
If Emmy is successful, she will go straight to the final on Saturday, May 17, where 26 countries compete in the 69th annual running of Europe's favourite television show.
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Emmy has
The Norwegian revealed how producers revamped her singing platform after earlier rehearsals this week.
First look at tonight's Fair City
Emmy told The Irish Sun: "We have done some changes after the first rehearsal because seeing the prop in the first rehearsal, it looked very big so we had to change a bit of the choreography and my placement on stage because of that.
"And also I had some rails on the rocket because I am standing on top of a rocket but the team didn't think it looked that great on camera so we have now removed the rails and we have a thing behind me instead."
Quizzed if she was scared of heights, Emmy told us she was glad it was her and not her brother Erlend who performs as a backing dancer below her on the night.
She said: 'If my brother was standing on top of that rocket, he would be so scared, luckily I am not scared as him of heights."
'VERY LOVELY'
Neither is Emmy scared of the protests over
Ireland's 2024 entry Bambie Thug was asked by organisers to remove a pro-Palestinian message from their costume during a dress rehearsal last year.
However Emmy, when asked whether Israel should be allowed to participate at
Israel broadcaster Kan have already filed a complaint to Swiss police over a protester in the crowd making a throat-slitting gesture towards the Israeli delegation while they travelled on a tram through the city.
Emmy said: "We weren't on the same tram as them so we didn't have that experience.
"We had an experience of lots of lovely people cheering us up so I was happy about that, so the turquoise carpet for me was very, very lovely."
