When was Una Foden confirmed as a judge for the 4th series of "The Voice of Ireland"?
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Patrick James (singer) Patrick James Donoghue is an Irish musician and recording artist with Universal Music. Originally from Dublin, Donoghue was a checkout worker at Dunnes Stores who rose to fame with winning series 4 of the talent show "The Voice of Ireland", becoming the fourth consecutive male to win the title, as well as the first ever champion under new coach Una Foden of The Saturdays. Months after his success, he revealed to the public that he had changed his stage name to Patrick James, as he felt it suited him more as an artist.
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Una Healy Una Theresa Imogene Foden (née Healy); born 10 October 1981, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter. She rose to fame in 2008 as a member of the five member English–Irish girl group The Saturdays, signed to Fascination and Polydor Records. The group have achieved substantial success with numerous top-ten hits as well as a hit number one single entitled "What About Us". In October 2014, it was confirmed that Healy would become a judge on "The Voice of Ireland".
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Darcey Bussell Darcey Andrea Bussell CBE (born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle 27 April 1969) is a retired English ballerina, and is currently one of the four judges on the BBC reality show "Strictly Come Dancing".
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X Factor (Albanian TV series) X Factor Albania is the Albanian version of "The X Factor", adapted from the original UK series to find new singing talent. The first season started in January 8, 2012, and it is broadcast by TV Klan. The judges are: Albanian singer from Macedonia Altuna Sejdiu, Albanian singer Soni Malaj, Albanian superstar Alban Skënderaj, and the famous composer Pandi Laço. The show is hosted by Alketa Vejsiu. She applied to acquire the rights of the show along with Top Channel and TV Klan. Syco TV gave the rights to her, then she sold parts of the rights to TV Klan. After losing the rights of "The X Factor", Top Channel acquired the rights of the talent show, "The Voice".
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Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 Ireland was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 by the brother-and sister-act Donna and Joseph McCaul with their song "Love?", which written and composed by Karl Broderick. RTÉ, the Irish state broadcaster once again ran the "You're A Star" talent contest to choose the act. The national competition was also open to contestants from Northern Ireland and was held on 6 March 2005.
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Michelle McNulty Michelle McNulty (born 1972), a former Las Vegas, Nevada review dancer, is today a 67th (2015) and 68th (2016) Emmy Awards winning producer of "The Voice". She was formerly the series’ 2013 Emmy Award winning casting director. She shared the 2015 and 2016 primetime Emmys for Outstanding Reality Competition Program with other production staff of "The Voice".
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The Voice of Germany The Voice of Germany is a German reality talent show that premiered on 24 November 2011 on ProSieben and Sat.1. Based on the reality singing competition "The Voice of Holland", the series was created by the Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of "The Voice", an international series.
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Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 Ireland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Sunlight" written by Nicky Byrne, Wayne Hector and Ronan Hardiman. The song was performed by Nicky Byrne, who was internally selected in January 2016 by the Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) to represent the nation at the 2016 contest in Stockholm, Sweden. "Sunlight" was presented as the Irish entry during the announcement of Byrne's internal selection on 13 January 2016.
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The Voice Kids (UK series 1) The Voice Kids is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The first series began airing on 10 June 2017, being broadcast on a weekly basis on ITV. It is hosted by Emma Willis and the coaches are will.i.am, Pixie Lott and Danny Jones. Jess Folley won the competition and Pixie Lott was the winning coach.
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The X Factor (UK series 8) The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The eighth series commenced airing on ITV on 20 August 2011 and ended on 11 December 2011. The winner was Little Mix, a four-piece girl group known earlier in the series as Rhythmix, consisting of members Jesy Nelson, Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jade Thirlwall. They became the first act in the groups category to win in the UK show's history with new judge Tulisa emerging as their winning mentor. Dermot O'Leary presented the main show on ITV, while Caroline Flack and series 6 runner-up Olly Murs co-presented the spin-off show "The Xtra Factor" on ITV2, replacing Konnie Huq from the previous year. Louis Walsh returned to the judging panel and was joined by Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland and Tulisa. Barlow, Rowland and Tulisa joined the panel as replacements for former judges, Simon Cowell, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole. Series 5 winner Alexandra Burke served as a guest judge for week 4 of the live shows due to Rowland having a throat infection.
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The Conway Sisters The Conway Sisters were a semi-professional singing group from County Sligo, Ireland who achieved a measure of fame through their appearance in the final stages of the second UK series of television talent show "The X Factor" in 2005.
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4Music 4Music is a music and entertainment channel in the United Kingdom and available on some digital television providers in the Republic of Ireland. The channel launched on 15 August 2008, replacing The Hits. It is the only Channel 4-branded channel within The Box Plus Network. It is available on Freeview, Virgin Media and Sky. On 2 April 2013, all Box Television channels went free-to-air on satellite, apart from 4Music which went free-to-view. As a result, the channels were removed from the Sky EPG in Ireland. However, 4Music went free-to-air on February 7, 2017 and launched on Freesat, replacing The Box.
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Miss Universe Ireland Miss Universe Ireland is a national beauty pageant that has selected Ireland's representative to the Miss Universe pageant since 2002.
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House Rules (season 4) The fourth season of Australian reality television series "House Rules", also known as Crowded House Rules, began airing on 27 April 2016. The series is produced by the team who created the Seven reality show "My Kitchen Rules" and is hosted by Johanna Griggs.
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Ireland in the Eurovision Young Musicians Ireland has participated in the Eurovision Young Musicians 4 times since its debut in 1986, most recently taking part in 1994. Ireland have failed to reach the final in every contest to date.
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X Factor (Poland series 3) X Factor is a Polish television music competition to find new singing talent and part of a British franchise "The X Factor". The third series began on 23 February 2013 and ended on 26 May 2013. All three judges known from the previous series including Czesław Mozil, Tatiana Okupnik and Kuba Wojewódzki returned. On 21 November 2012 it was announced that Jarosław Kuźniar would not be back to present the series due to personal reasons and his commitments to TVN24. On 13 December 2012, Patricia Kazadi was confirmed as the new presenter. It was reported that Marcin Prokop, Szymon Majewski and Agnieszka Szulim had also been in running for the role.
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List of The Voice UK finalists (series 1) The first series of the talent show The Voice UK began broadcasting on 24 March 2012. The coaches are Tom Jones, Jessie J, Danny O'Donoghue of The Script and will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas. Each coach chose who they wanted on their team by pressing their "I Want You" button. When one or more coaches turned around, the contestant chose which team he or she wanted to join. If none of the coaches pressed their button by the end of the contestant's song, all four coaches turned around to give advice to the contestant who would not progress in the show. The show was won by Leanne Mitchell, mentored by Tom Jones, who took the £100,000 and record deal with Universal Republic Records, with Tyler James and Bo Bruce becoming the joint runners-up (mentored by will.i.am and Danny O'Donoghue respectively). Vince Kidd, mentored by Jessie J took fourth place.
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Reigan Derry Reigan Elisse Derry (born 19 September 1988), also known mononymously as Reigan, is an Australian singer and songwriter. Derry rose to fame after placing eleventh on the fourth season of "Australian Idol" in 2006. The following year, she became a member of the Australian pop duo Scarlett Belle, who disbanded in 2011. Three years later, Derry placed fourth on the sixth season of "The X Factor Australia". She subsequently received a recording contract with Sony Music Australia and released her debut extended play, "All of the Pieces", in December 2014.
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The Voice of Albania (series 5) The fifth season of The Voice of Albania aired from 9 January 2016 to the 16th April on Top Channel. The show is still hosted by Ledion Liço who has hosted the series since series one. Three judges have remained the same (Alma Bektashi, Sidrit Bejliri & Genc Salihu) while there is one new judge - Jonida Maliqi, Vodafone Albania continued to sponsor the series and used the slogan "Power to your Voice!"
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Leanne Mitchell Leanne Sian Mitchell (born 14 December 1983) is an English pop singer–songwriter, known for winning the first series of "The Voice UK" on 2 June 2012. Mitchell released her debut solo single "Run to You" on 3 June 2012.
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Who Dares, Sings! Who Dares, Sings! is a karaoke style game show airing in the United Kingdom on the ITV Network and in the Republic of Ireland on TV3 Ireland. It premiered at 20:00 BST on 28 June 2008 and was hosted by Ben Shephard and Denise Van Outen. Only seven episodes have been shown in one series. Tickets were offered for a Christmas special, but this has not aired and will probably never do so.
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Aengus Mac Grianna Aengus Mac Grianna (born 10 October 1964) is an Irish newsreader for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Mac Grianna was born in Raheny, a suburb in north Dublin to an Irish language speaking family. His father was a scientist and his mother was a teacher. Mac Grianna was educated solely through Irish. He broadcasts in both Irish and English. Mac Grianna has presented the Oireachtas Media Awards. He lives on an alpaca farm in County Meath just outside Ashbourne with his husband Terry Gill who he married in June 2014. His first job was in the Arnotts Sports Department where he earned £80 per week. He is a fan of "Desperate Housewives" and "Coronation Street" and supports Dublin and Manchester United. Mac Grianna was considered a favourite to replace iconic newsreader Anne Doyle when she retired on 25 December 2011.