This week our HoD Spotlight takes us to Ireland, where Michael Kealy tells us about bridging the credibility gap, the benefits of internal selection and the pressure to stay ahead of those pesky Swedes...

The rise of online betting and trading sites in the last decade has seen betting at the Eurovision Song Contest become a legitimate angle for analysis and profit. The wallet behind ESCtips, Gavin Lambert, takes us on an adventure that is genuinely against the odds.

You all know that Melodifestivalen is a big deal. Yet in hosting the Eurovision Song Contest this year Swedish broadcaster SVT chose the far smaller Globe Arena. ESC Insight’s Ben Robertson attended the final of Melodifestivalen and tried to work out why this top category stadium is not hosting the Song Contest in 2016.

Do you know your Moldovas from your Montenegros? Your drams from your manats? Or even your Tiranas from your Tallinns? Of course you do, because you had the greatest Geography teacher in the world. Not Ellie Chalkley, but the Eurovision Song Contest.

In the second of our Head of Delegation interviews, we speak to Jan Bors from the Czech Republic about learning from failure, creating a credible Eurovision package and why the Czech public's perception of the Eurovision Song Contest is finally starting to change...