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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 20 MARCH 2016 News 11 M ed iter ra n ea n M a r iti m e H u b Ca r eer O ppo rtu n iti es For more information visit our website: www.ablecareosg.com or our facebook page www.facebook.com/Ablecare-Oilfield-Services-Group TIM DIACONO MALTESE Eurovision fans can keep their fingers crossed and hope for the best this year, as Ira Losco has emerged as one of the early favourites to take the trophy home. Paddy Power currently ranks Malta as the third fa- vourite to win the entire contest, with their odds slashed from 13/1 on Thursday to 8/1 on Saturday. Ira Losco will represent Malta this year, with the pow- erful and catchy song Walk on Water. The song was con- troversially selected by a panel of international and Mal- tese judges, despite the singer having earned her place at this year's Eurovision Song Contest through her song 'Chameleon'. However, the early signs are that Losco has made the right decision, and indeed her song climbed two places up Paddy Power's rankings since her song was released on Thursday. Her stiffest rivals look set to be current favourites Rus- sia, represented by Sergey Lazarev's You Are The Only One, and hosts Sweden, represented by Frans' If I Were Sorry. Close behind Malta's tails in fourth and fifth respec- tively are Croatia (Nina Kraljic – Lighthouse) and Aus- tralia (Im – Sound of Silence). Any result other than a victory will be a disappoint- ment for Losco, given that she finished a narrow second in 2002 with her song 7th Wonder. Losco said that Walk on Water was emblematic of her own personality, and that its message was of "achieving the impossible and never giving up on yourself". "Life, as we all know, can be very hard and is full of ups and downs," she told MaltaToday in an interview on Thursday. "However, I truly believe that staying positive makes it easier to achieve seemingly impossible goals." So stay positive, Eurovision fans, because this may just be the year… Ira Losco's Walk on Water shoots up to third place in Paddy Power's Eurovision Song Contest rankings, behind Russia and Sweden WILL IT BE IRA'S YEAR? "I truly believe that staying positive makes it easier to achieve seemingly impossible goals." Eurovision 2016