Niamh Kavanagh, Brian Kennedy and Stiofán Ó Fearail are looking for the voice and song to represent Ireland in our debut entry at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
The competition will be broadcast live from the Armeec Arena in Sofia Bulgaria, in a two-hour show to be aired on TG4 on Saturday November 21.
After extensive auditions nationwide, the top 32 singers have been chosen to go forward to the televised heats. Over five weeks, young singers will battle it out on TG4 to represent Ireland. Each performer will be singing their own original Irish language song in the series.
Presenter Eoghan McDermott will be keeping the proceedings flowing, while judging the competition will be Niamh Kavanagh, who won the Eurovison for Ireland in 1993, and Brian Kennedy, who represented Ireland at the 2006 Eurovision.
Stiofán Ó Fearail, the voice behind the YouTube sensation Coláiste Lurgan and lead singer of hit Irish band Seo Linn also numbers among the judges T
The search begins on Sunday October 11 on TG4 at 8.30pm.
