Ireland

Ireland first took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965 and has entered 58 contests, most recently in 2025. It has won 7 times, most recently in 1996 with The Voice by Eimear Quinn. Its highest score in a final is 278 points, in 2024 with Doomsday Blue. Since the semi-finals were introduced in 2004 it has qualified for the Grand Final 7 times in 19 attempts, not counting years with an automatic place. It has hosted the contest 7 times: Dublin 1971, Dublin 1981, Dublin 1988, Millstreet 1993, Dublin 1994, Dublin 1995 and Dublin 1997. The countries that have given it most points in total are the United Kingdom (371) and Sweden (255); it has itself given most points to Sweden (327).

Eurovision records: Countries with most wins · All Eurovision winners

Participations

Year	Song	Performed By	Semi Final Position	Grand Final Position
2025	Laika Party	Emmy	13. /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 vote for Ireland

Country	Jury Points	Tel. Points	Total	Average
Austria	22	21	219	4.76
Belgium	13	23	219	4.06
Finland	12	21	165	3.30
France	1	1	122	2.65
Germany	12	14	185	3.94
Italy	26	3	142	4.58
Luxembourg	0	8	124	4.00
Malta	10	21	132	3.77
Monaco	0	0	51	2.68
Norway	5	11	205	3.60
Portugal	10	25	167	3.48
Spain	17	27	196	4.08
Sweden	5	10	255	4.72
Switzerland	28	9	228	4.30
The Netherlands	0	12	182	3.43
United Kingdom	13	69	371	7.73
Yugoslavia	0	0	64	2.91
Cyprus	3	10	114	2.78
Serbia	2	14	19	1.27
Lithuania	27	25	105	3.89
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	13	16	40	2.35
Australia	25	45	70	8.75
Rest of the world	0	18	18	–
San Marino	8	7	32	3.20
Czech Republic	25	15	45	5.63
Denmark	13	18	199	4.74
Armenia	0	2	6	0.46
Georgia	0	4	4	0.33
Greece	0	6	110	2.82
Estonia	17	14	102	3.92
Latvia	0	9	63	2.86
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	2	9	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	0.55
Andorra	0	0	5	1.00
Armenia	9	0	11	0.55
Australia	21	38	64	4.92
Austria	41	19	168	3.36
Azerbaijan	22	3	52	2.17
Belarus	2	2	14	0.82
Belgium	53	16	182	3.31
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	24	1.14
Bulgaria	59	29	89	6.85
Croatia	18	46	90	2.81
Cyprus	32	19	120	2.67
Czech Republic	26	22	49	4.45
Denmark	4	12	200	4.26
Estonia	19	30	141	4.70
Finland	17	56	176	3.20
France	35	11	194	3.40
Georgia	1	0	14	1.00
Germany	19	8	174	3.00
Greece	4	1	65	1.38
Hungary	0	8	37	1.95
Iceland	9	16	82	2.34
Israel	51	61	215	3.91
Italy	13	12	127	3.10
Latvia	5	34	142	6.45
Lithuania	13	151	283	8.58
Luxembourg	8	8	111	3.47
Malta	43	25	170	4.59
Moldova	0	32	61	2.65
Monaco	0	0	38	2.11
The Netherlands	41	24	209	3.60
North Macedonia	14	0	14	0.67
Norway	32	37	251	3.80
Poland	0	76	142	5.26
Portugal	20	16	69	1.33
Romania	12	31	120	4.14
Russia	11	21	112	4.00
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	9	3.00
Serbia	15	5	32	1.45
Slovakia	0	0	6	1.20
Slovenia	8	0	39	1.26
Spain	13	8	94	1.59
Sweden	85	43	327	5.11
Switzerland	53	31	201	3.65
Türkiye	0	0	24	0.71
Ukraine	17	66	136	4.53
United Kingdom	23	26	274	4.64
Yugoslavia	0	0	52	2.36