The Oven's still roasting Dustin!

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One of Ireland's most popular daily radio programmes, Liveline, a severe backlash against RTE's decision to allow the puppet, Dustin, to enter the national final. Joe Duffy, the show's presenter, will be familiar to some Eurovision fans already. In 2003 he lead the claims of plagiarism of the 2000 ESC winner by the Irish entry of that year. On the matter of Dustin's entry, several Eurovsion linked writers were very vocal in their outrage.

Frank McNamara, who was the musical director of the Late Late Show for 20 years began the criticism of the juries decision to progress the children's puppet's song to the final of Eurosong 2008. He was closely joined by Shay Healy, who wrote the 1980 Eurovision Song Cotest winner. Shay's argument was extremely sarcastic to begin with, and it soon became apparent that he was totally disgusted by RTE's decision. Then another Eurovision winner added his voice to the chorus of complaints. Phil Coulter (composer of UK 1967 + 1968 & Luxembourg 1975).

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Also read: Dustin refuses to pull Out of Eurosong contest

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