Dustin is a Turkey!

The Celtic Sage has never claimed infallibility, though some have attributed it to him, but even he has had his feathers ruffled. His confident prediction of 8th April last that Dustin the Turkey with his mould breaking contribution “Irelande Douze Pointes!!” would be the 2008 Eurovision winner was last night exposed as a fowl piece of judgement

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as Dustin was culled early in the Eurovision semi finals.

Dustin may have been lost in translation, as he simply failed to make the cut on the Eurovision stage. The feathered performer set a new standard for the weird and wonderful world of Eurovision last night when he exploded on stage in a burst of green, white and gold. Propped up in a jazzed-up shopping trolley and surrounded by a flock of dancers, the feathered puppet outdid some of the most outlandish acts ever seen in the annual contest -- and that's saying something as the Eurovision sets the kitsch standards the rest of the world rightly fears. Hopes were high for Dustin who had an impressive back up team including Bob Geldof on hair and make up and Dana as spiritual adviser. As Dustin himself pointed out he wasn’t like Westlife, he had talent.

After he was cruelly cut he made a statesmanlike speech to his distraught fans; "I urge my fans across Europe to be dignified in defeat. I do not want street riots as I'm a peace-loving bird," he said. A place in the final would have been a victory for art, beauty, poetry but most of all, for his bank account, he declared.



But dignified as he was a terrible thought occurred to me when the news broke that General Franco’s Spanish Government had orchestrated a conspiracy which cheated Cliff Richard of the Eurovision prize in 1968 for “Congratulations”. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that this plucky Irish Turkey was stuffed by a Pan-European vegetarian conspiracy?