Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest
Contestants
Table key NOTE: If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year.

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Section Title: Contestants
Table Section Text: Table key NOTE: If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year.

Year	Artist	Language	Title	Final	Points	Semi	Points

1965	Butch Moore	English	"Walking the Streets in the Rain"	6	11	No semi-finals

1966	Dickie Rock	English	"Come Back to Stay"	4	14

1967	Sean Dunphy	English	"If I Could Choose"	2	22

1968	Pat McGeegan	English	"Chance of a Lifetime"	4	18

1969	Muriel Day	English	"The Wages of Love"	7	10

1970	Dana	English	"All Kinds of Everything"	1	32

1971	Angela Farrell	English	"One Day Love"	11	79

1972	Sandie Jones	Irish	"Ceol an Ghrá"	15	72

1973	Maxi	English	"Do I Dream"	10	80

1974	Tina Reynolds	English	"Cross Your Heart"	7	11

1975	The Swarbriggs	English	"That's What Friends Are For"	9	68

1976	Red Hurley	English	"When"	10	54

1977	The Swarbriggs Plus Two	English	"It's Nice To Be In Love Again"	3	119

1978	Colm C.T. Wilkinson	English	"Born to Sing"	5	86

1979	Cathal Dunne	English	"Happy Man"	5	80

1980	Johnny Logan	English	"What's Another Year?"	1	143

1981	Sheeba	English	"Horoscopes"	5	105

1982	The Duskeys	English	"Here Today Gone Tomorrow"	11	49

1983	Did not participate

1984	Linda Martin	English	"Terminal 3"	2	137

1985	Maria Christian	English	"Wait Until the Weekend Comes"	6	91

1986	Luv Bug	English	"You Can Count On Me"	4	96

1987	Johnny Logan	English	"Hold Me Now"	1	172

1988	Jump the Gun	English	"Take Him Home"	8	79

1989	Kiev Connolly & The Missing Passengers	English	"The Real Me"	18	21

1990	Liam Reilly	English	"Somewhere in Europe"	2	132

1991	Kim Jackson	English	"Could It Be That I'm In Love"	10	47

1992	Linda Martin	English	"Why Me?"	1	155

1993	Niamh Kavanagh	English	"In Your Eyes"	1	187	Host country

1994	Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan	English	"Rock 'n' Roll Kids"	1	226	No semi-finals

1995	Eddie Friel	English	"Dreamin'"	14	44

1996	Eimear Quinn	English	"The Voice"	1	162	2	198

1997	Marc Roberts	English	"Mysterious Woman"	2	157	No semi-finals

1998	Dawn Martin	English	"Is Always Over Now?"	9	64

1999	The Mullans	English	"When You Need Me"	17	18

2000	Eamonn Toal	English	"Millennium of Love"	6	92

2001	Gary O'Shaughnessy	English	"Without Your Love"	21	6

2002	Did not participate

2003	Mickey Harte	English	"We've Got the World"	11	53

2004	Chris Doran	English	"If My World Stopped Turning"	22	7	Top 11 Previous Year

2005	Donna and Joe	English	"Love?"	Failed to qualify	14	53

2006	Brian Kennedy	English	"Every Song Is a Cry for Love"	10	93	9	79

2007	Dervish	English	"They Can't Stop the Spring"	24	5	Top 10 Previous Year

2008	Dustin the Turkey	English	"Irelande Douze Pointe"	Failed to qualify	15	22

2009	Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy	English	"Et Cetera"	11	52

2010	Niamh Kavanagh	English	"It's for You"	23	25	9	67

2011	Jedward	English	"Lipstick"	8	119	8	68

2012	English	"Waterline"	19	46	6	92

2013	Ryan Dolan	English	"Only Love Survives"	26	5	8	54

2014	Can-Linn feat. Kasey Smith	English	"Heartbeat"	Failed to qualify	12	35

2015	Molly Sterling	English	"Playing with Numbers"	12	35

2016	Nicky Byrne	English	"Sunlight"	15	46

2017	Brendan Murray	English	"Dying to Try"	13	86

2018	Ryan O'Shaughnessy	English	"Together"	16	136	6	179

2019	Sarah McTernan	English	"22"

Sentence(s)

In Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest, Niamh Kavanagh won in 1993 with "In Your Eyes"and Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won in 1994 with "Rock 'n' Roll Kids".

final_sentence: In Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest, Niamh Kavanagh won in 1993 with "In Your Eyes"and Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won in 1994 with "Rock 'n' Roll Kids".