Ireland

Ireland has participated Eurovision Song Contest 59 times since it's debut in 1965. The best ranking is 1. in 1996 with the song called The Voice performed by Eimear Quinn.

Participations

Year	Song	Performed By	Semi Final Position	Grand Final Position
2025	Laika Party	Emmy	- 16	-
2024	Doomsday Blue	Bambie Thug	3. / 15	6. / 26
2023	We Are One	Wild Youth	12. / 15	-
2022	That's Rich	Brooke	15. / 18	-
2021	MAPS	Lesley Roy	16. / 16	-
2020	Story Of My Life	Lesley Roy
2019	22	Sarah McTernan	18. / 18	-
2018	Together	Ryan O'Shaughnessy	6. / 19	16. / 26
2017	Dying to Try	Brendan Murray	13. / 18	-
2016	Sunlight	Nicky Byrne	15. / 18	-
2015	Playing With Numbers	Molly Sterling	12. / 17	-
2014	Heartbeat	Can-Linn (featuring Kasey Smith)	12. / 15	-
2013	Only Love Survives	Ryan Dolan	8. / 16	26. / 26
2012	Waterline	Jedward	6. / 18	19. / 26
2011	Lipstick	Jedward	8. / 19	8. / 25
2010	It's For You	Niamh Kavanagh	9. / 17	23. / 25
2009	Et Cetera	Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy	11. / 19	-
2008	Irelande Douze Pointe	Dustin the Turkey	15. / 19	-
2007	They Can't Stop The Spring	Dervish	-	24. / 24
2006	Every Song Is A Cry For Love	Brian Kennedy	9. / 23	10. / 24
2005	Love?	Donna and Joseph McCaul	14. / 25	-
2004	If My World Stopped Turning	Chris Doran	-	22. / 24
2003	We've Got The World	Mickey Harte	-	11. / 26
2001	Without Your Love	Gary O'Shaughnessy	-	21. / 23
2000	Millennium Of Love	Eamonn Toal	-	6. / 24
1999	When You Need Me	The Mullan's	-	17. / 23
1998	Is Always Over Now?	Dawn	-	9. / 25
1997	Mysterious Woman	Marc Roberts	-	2. / 25
1996	The Voice	Eimear Quinn	-	1. / 23
1995	Dreamin'	Eddie Friel	-	14. / 23
1994	Rock 'n' Roll Kids	Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan	-	1. / 25
1993	In Your Eyes	Niamh Kavanagh	-	1. / 25
1992	Why Me	Linda Martin	-	1. / 23
1991	Could It Be That I'm In Love	Kim Jackson	-	10. / 22
1990	Somewhere In Europe	Liam Reilly	-	2. / 22
1989	The Real Me	Kiev Connolly and the Missing Passengers	-	18. / 22
1988	Take Him Home	Jump the Gun	-	8. / 21
1987	Hold Me Now	Johnny Logan	-	1. / 22
1986	You Can Count On Me	Luv Bug	-	4. / 20
1985	Wait Until The Weekend Comes	Maria Christian	-	6. / 19
1984	Terminal '3'	Linda Martin	-	2. / 19
1982	Here Today, Gone Tomorrow	The Duskeys	-	11. / 18
1981	Horoscopes	Sheeba	-	5. / 20
1980	What's Another Year	Johnny Logan	-	1. / 19
1979	Happy Man	Cathal Dunne	-	5. / 19
1978	Born To Sing	Colm T. Wilkinson	-	5. / 20
1977	It's Nice To Be In Love Again	The Swarbriggs Plus Two	-	3. / 18
1976	When	Red Hurley	-	10. / 18
1975	That's What Friends Are For	The Swarbriggs	-	9. / 19
1974	Cross Your Heart	Tina	-	7. / 17
1973	Do I Dream?	Maxi	-	10. / 17
1972	Ceol On Ghrá	Sandie Jones	-	15. / 18
1971	One Day Love	Angela Farrell	-	11. / 18
1970	All Kinds Of Everything	Dana	-	1. / 12
1969	The Wages Of Love	Muriel Day and the Lindsays	-	7. / 16
1968	Chance Of A Lifetime	Pat McGeegan	-	4. / 17
1967	If I Could Choose	Sean Dunphy	-	2. / 17
1966	Come Back To Stay	Dickie Rock	-	4. / 18
1965	I'm Walking The Streets In The Rain	Butch Moore	-	6. / 18

Hosted events

Year	Country	Venue	Number of participants
Dublin 1997	Ireland	The Point Theatre	25
Dublin 1995	Ireland	The Point Theatre	23
Dublin 1994	Ireland	The Point Theatre	25
Millstreet 1993	Ireland	Green Glens Arena	25
Dublin 1988	Ireland	Simmonscourt Pavillion of the Royal Dublin Society	21
Dublin 1981	Ireland	Simmonscourt Pavillion, Royal Dublin Society	20
Dublin 1971	Ireland	Gaiety Theatre	18

Countries that votes Ireland

Country	Jury Points	Tel. Points	Total	Average
Austria	22	21	219	4.76
Belgium	10	26	219	4.06
Finland	12	19	163	3.26
France	1	1	122	2.65
Germany	12	14	185	3.94
Italy	25	4	142	4.58
Luxembourg	0	6	122	3.94
Malta	12	13	126	3.60
Monaco	0	0	51	2.68
Norway	4	12	205	3.60
Portugal	10	25	167	3.48
Spain	24	20	196	4.08
Sweden	4	11	256	4.74
Switzerland	28	9	228	4.30
The Netherlands	0	12	182	3.43
United Kingdom	25	50	364	7.58
Yugoslavia	0	0	64	2.91
Cyprus	0	13	114	2.78
Serbia	2	14	19	1.27
Lithuania	28	22	103	3.81
Ukraine	14	16	38	1.90
Poland	6	18	68	2.83
Croatia	18	19	89	2.87
Iceland	19	10	95	3.06
Slovenia	1	6	51	1.70
Moldova	5	7	16	0.89
Azerbaijan	10	19	40	2.35
Australia	26	42	68	8.50
Rest of the world	0	17	17	NaN
San Marino	8	7	32	3.20
Czech Republic	26	14	45	5.63
Denmark	13	16	197	4.69
Armenia	0	2	6	0.46
Georgia	0	4	4	0.33
Greece	0	6	110	2.82
Estonia	13	18	102	3.92
Latvia	0	5	59	2.68
Belarus	2	4	11	0.65
Bulgaria	2	0	13	0.93
North Macedonia	1	1	16	0.76
Hungary	8	0	48	3.69
Israel	5	6	98	2.00
Romania	3	7	47	1.96
Andorra	0	0	6	1.00
Albania	0	7	20	1.25
Russia	0	0	39	1.77
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	1	0.50
Türkiye	0	0	124	3.88
Slovakia	0	0	27	3.38
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	54	3.00
Montenegro	0	0	4	0.40

Countries that Ireland votes for

Country	Jury Points	Tel. Points	Total	Average
Albania	2	1	11	0.58
Andorra	0	0	5	1.00
Armenia	8	0	10	0.53
Australia	21	35	61	4.69
Austria	29	9	146	2.98
Azerbaijan	13	12	52	2.17
Belarus	2	2	14	0.82
Belgium	50	19	182	3.31
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	24	1.14
Bulgaria	58	30	89	6.85
Croatia	15	49	90	2.81
Cyprus	30	21	120	2.67
Czech Republic	17	31	49	4.45
Denmark	4	7	195	4.24
Estonia	17	26	135	4.66
Finland	19	38	160	2.96
France	22	16	186	3.26
Georgia	1	0	14	1.00
Germany	19	8	174	3.00
Greece	1	0	61	1.33
Hungary	0	8	37	1.95
Iceland	10	15	82	2.41
Israel	46	37	186	3.44
Italy	13	12	127	3.10
Latvia	5	23	131	6.24
Lithuania	36	110	265	8.28
Luxembourg	8	6	109	3.52
Malta	26	32	160	4.44
Moldova	7	25	61	2.65
Monaco	0	0	38	2.11
North Macedonia	11	3	14	0.67
Norway	28	41	251	3.86
Poland	22	42	130	5.00
Portugal	18	18	69	1.35
Romania	22	21	120	4.14
Russia	4	28	112	4.00
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	9	3.00
Serbia	8	12	32	1.45
Slovakia	0	0	6	1.20
Slovenia	8	0	39	1.26
Spain	6	14	93	1.58
Sweden	75	46	320	5.08
Switzerland	51	33	201	3.65
The Netherlands	31	24	199	3.49
Türkiye	0	0	24	0.71
Ukraine	30	46	129	4.45
United Kingdom	19	28	272	4.61
Yugoslavia	0	0	52	2.36