Donna and Joseph McCaul

The decision for Donna and Joe to represent Ireland was voted on by an Irish television audience and was announced on RTÉ's You're a Star on 6 March 2005.

Following their brief spell in the spotlight, they were contestants on the RTÉ reality series Fáilte Towers in 2008, and guest-presented an episode of The Podge and Rodge Show.

[1][3][4] She appeared in an RTÉ Christmas special with Katherine Lynch in 2008 and featured in an episode of Anonymous during which Bazil Ashmawy fooled her on television.

[5] She sang at Our Lady's Bower Secondary in Athlone, and at the age of eighteen, was victorious in a competition called Teen Popstars.

[13][14] Marty Whelan said, "They worked their little socks off all week" and the Irish Independent said, "They sang and moved with a confidence beyond their years and wiggled their asses with some elan".

On 2 August 2008, Donna and Joe appeared as a couple on the Irish reality television show Fáilte Towers broadcast on RTÉ One.

[17] The show involved celebrity members taking on different jobs each day as part of the staff of a large country hotel in Ireland.

While there they encountered, among other people, fellow Eurovision entertainer, Dickie Rock, as well as a fake wedding, a nudist group and a set of Japanese tourists before "checking out"[18] after being chosen to leave over Big Brother winner Brian Dowling and former Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton.

Whilst in the hotel the pair managed to raise over €30,000 for their chosen charity Aware, an Irish voluntary organisation providing support to through depression.

Media coverage of the pair's time in Fáilte Towers was scathing, with one report saying: "By definition, this type of reality TV is nothing more than a springboard for wannabe celebs who have somehow scraped onto the bottom of the fame ladder".

caught out by Jason Byrne on the Irish television show Anonymous, when Bazil Ashmawy disguised himself as a shy man in his early thirties who was lacking in confidence and needed Donna's help to overcome this problem.

Donna and Joe sang their Eurovision entry at the wedding of TV presenter Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick (who wrote the song) at the Mansion House, Dublin on 30 September 2011.