Ciarán

Lots of people still getting in touch on that number about the ambulance strike.

We might come back to it in a few minutes, but something else that's happening today I want to talk about.

Or is it happening?

Maybe not if your TV schedule is to be believed.

The Eurovision Song Contest first semi-final on tonight, but not on RTE television.

Mark is on the line.

Mark, how do you feel about that?

So were you upset in December when RT announced that they wouldn't be participating?

Did you assume that it would be broadcast?

Fair enough, right.

We won't be there.

I disagree with it, but at least it'll be on the telly.

Explain that to people who've never used a VPN, never come into contact with one, don't know what you mean.

What do you mean when you say I'm going to use a VPN?

So you can access the RTE player in Ireland and the BBC iPlayer in the UK, and this tricks your phone or tablet into thinking you're in one country or the other.

So do you think maybe after this is done and dusted, you get a flavour now, a taste of the BBC?

You'll be sitting down watching their Sunday evening drama on your VPN.

So it's just for the Eurovision?

Yeah.

In Moscow, did they compete under the Olympic flag in Moscow?