Ireland is the early bookies' favourite to win the Eurovision 2008, closely followed by Ukraine, Latvia and Romania.Ireland has entered the glove puppet Dustin the Turkey, singing a song which satirizes the Eurovision Song Contest. His performance has not gone down well with some die-hard Eurovision fans and booing can clearly be heard before and after this live performance from RTE Irish Television watch . Early bookmaking on the Eurovision is notoriously unreliable. Last year's early favourite, DJ Bobo from Switzerland, did not even make it past the Preliminary Final.
