Ireland will send a puppet to represent the nation in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Dustin the Turkey is apparently well-known to Irish TV viewers, and scored a #1 album on the national pop charts.
I love this kind of silliness. You'd think that with hundreds of cable channels, one of them would pick up the contest and run it in the US.

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