Linda: Johnny and I are write for Ireland

Former winner lauds Brooke's performance

- SANDRA MALLON

EUROVISION winner Linda Martin would represent Ireland again at the song contest - if top crooner Johnny Logan wrote a duet for them both to perform.

Our luck ran out on Thursday night after Derry girl Brooke Scullion failed to qualify in Turin with her song, That's Rich.

Yesterday, a teary-eyed Brooke told fans “it is not the end of the road for her as she reveals she is set to launch her first EP soon.

She said: “Look it didn't go our way tonight. We are so, so happy with what we did, and it maybe isn't for me right now.

“But maybe in the future, maybe bigger things are going to come.

“I've literally got an EP coming out like who knows. Thank you to everyone who voted.

"I couldn't have done any more. I'm so happy."

Ireland – who won the Eurovision Song Contest seven times - hasn't qualified since 2018 when Ryan O'Shaughnessy represented us with his song, Together.

But now Linda told us she wants another crack at it but only if Johnny gets involved too.

Linda has twice represented Ireland at the Eurovision. The first time was in 1984 with the Loganpenned Terminal 3 when she finished in second place, just eight points behind winners Sweden.

She returned in 1992 with the track Why Me? also written by Logan, which proved to be a hit in the final of the song contest. Logan is the only performer to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1980 and 1987.