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Originally Posted by Stu

My full time job is living on an island full of Irish people and I can tell you that for the most part you are wrong. Sure some kids and mammies love them - the same ones who got the album - but calling them 'big in Ireland' is ridonkulos. Most Irish people despise and revile them. That's from someone who lives in Ireland.

Well obviously I cannot say you are wrong but I have relations living in Ireland too, I don't, but I talk to them the most because I love the Irish people,I have many friends there too, from Mullingar, to Dublin to Killarney and many other places too, who when I talk to them, if we talk about Jedward or the Charts there,they always sing massive praises of them.

I even came to Ireland to see Jedward in concert and the audience was very wide, adults there because they liked them, adults there with their younger kids, teenagers and also other people in their 20s and 30s, none of whom said a bad thing about them as they left,all had a great night and loved every minute of a truly entertaining, lively and varied performance by them.

So I can only speak from what I hear and what I have seen myself,clearly you and I do not talk to the same people but I think you may find Jedward are far more than just well liked in Ireland and also soon they will be over Europe too and the States.

Companies spending money advertising are in a queue to get Jedward for their ads,that in itself shows the potential those comapnies feel they have to reach big audiences.

All that aside, I just hope they do really well in the Contest and I somehow think the vast majority of people in Ireland watching the Eurovision song contest will be right behind them all the way and loving every minute. As I will here in England too.