Ireland Eurovision Song Contest entries discography

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This is a discography of the Ireland entries for the Eurovision Song Contest, featuring the highest chart placing attained on the Irish Singles Chart.

Contents

Irish Singles Chart

YearArtistSongChart Position
1965 Butch Moore "I'm Walking the Streets in the Rain"1 [1]
1966 Dickie Rock "Come Back to Stay"1 [1]
1967 Sean Dunphy "If I Could Choose"2 [2]
1968 Pat McGeegan "Chance of a Lifetime"1 [1]
1969 Muriel Day "The Wages of Love"1 [1]
1970 Dana "All Kinds of Everything"1 [1]
1971 Angela Farrell "One Day Love"4
1972 Sandie Jones " Ceol an Ghrá "1 [1]
1973 Maxi "Do I Dream?"7
1974 Tina Reynolds "Cross Your Heart"1 [1]
1975 The Swarbriggs "That's What Friends Are For"2
1976 Red Hurley "When?"4
1977 The Swarbriggs Plus Two"It's Nice to Be in Love Again"1 [1]
1978 Colm C. T. Wilkinson "Born to Sing"8
1979 Cathal Dunne "Happy Man"5
1980 Johnny Logan "What's Another Year?"1 [1]
1981 Sheeba "Horoscopes"3
1982 The Duskeys "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"12
1984 Linda Martin "Terminal 3"7
1985 Maria Christian "Wait Until the Weekend Comes"15
1986 Luv Bug "You Can Count On Me"2
1987 Johnny Logan"Hold Me Now"1 [1]
1988 Jump the Gun "Take Him Home"3
1989 Kiev Connolly and the Missing Passengers"The Real Me"17
1990 Liam Reilly "Somewhere in Europe"6
1991 Kim Jackson "Could It Be That I'm in Love?"7
1992 Linda Martin"Why Me?"1 [1]
1993 Niamh Kavanagh "In Your Eyes"1 [1]
1994 Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan "Rock 'n' Roll Kids"2
1995 Eddie Friel "Dreamin' "5
1996 Eimear Quinn "The Voice"3
1997 Marc Roberts "Mysterious Woman"2
1998 Dawn Martin "Is Always Over Now?"24
1999 The Mullans"When You Need Me"Failed to chart [1]
2000 Eamonn Toal "Millennium of Love"Failed to chart [1]
2001 Gary O'Shaughnessy "Without Your Love"Failed to chart
2003 Mickey Harte "We've Got the World"1 [3]
2004 Chris Doran "If My World Stopped Turning"1 [4]
2005 Donna and Joe "Love?"2
2006 Brian Kennedy "Every Song Is a Cry for Love"4
2007 Dervish "They Can't Stop the Spring"Failed to chart [1]
2008 Dustin the Turkey "Irelande Douze Pointe"5 [5]
2009 Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy "Et Cetera"6
2010 Niamh Kavanagh"It's for You"8
2011 Jedward "Lipstick"1 [1]
2012 Jedward"Waterline"5
2013 Ryan Dolan "Only Love Survives"13
2014 Can-linn feat. Kasey Smith "Heartbeat"39
2015 Molly Sterling "Playing with Numbers"77 [2]
2016 Nicky Byrne "Sunlight"68 [2]
2017 Brendan Murray "Dying to Try"Failed to chart [1]
2018 Ryan O'Shaughnessy "Together"17
2019 Sarah McTernan "22"Failed to chart [1]
2020 Lesley Roy "Story of My Life"12
2021 Lesley Roy"Maps"76
2022 Brooke "That's Rich"54
2023 Wild Youth "We Are One"93
2024 Bambie Thug "Doomsday Blue"23 [6]

Chart positions sourced from 'Irish Charts Archive' [7]

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