The Kilbeggan-based songwriter of Ireland’s Eurovision entry said she was speechless after her song won at the Late Late show Eurosong contest on Friday, 7 February.
Larissa Tormey, originally from the Soviet Unuion but who has called Kilbeggan home for nearly 25 years, co-wrote the track Laika Party, which was performed by EMMY and her brother, Erlend Guttulsrud Kristiansen.